What would happen if Exception were made a new-style class, enforce inheritance from Exception for all new-style exceptions, and allow all old-style exceptions as before.
string exceptions would break.
In addition, code may break which assumes that exceptions are classic instances, e.g. that they are picklable, have an __dict__, and so on.
> Am I wrong in assuming that only the
most esoteric exceptions inheriting from Exception would break by Exception becoming new-style?
Yes, I think so.
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