[Armin]
> For reference, PyPy doesn't have old-style classes at all so far, so we had to
> come up with something about exceptions. After some feedback from python-dev
> it appears that the following scheme works reasonably well. Actually it's
> surprizing how little problems we actually encountered by removing the
> old-/new-style distinction (particularly when compared with the extremely
> obscure workarounds we had to go through in PyPy itself, e.g. precisely
> because we wanted exceptions that are member of some (new-style) class
> hierarchy).
>
> Because a bit of Python code tells more than long and verbose explanations,
> here it is:
>
> def app_normalize_exception(etype, value, tb):
[...]
> elif type(etype) is str:
> # XXX warn -- deprecated
> if value is not None and type(value) is not str:
> raise TypeError("string exceptions can only have a string value")
That is stricter than classic Python though -- it allows the value to
be anything (and you get the value back unadorned in the except 's',
x: clause).
[Michael]
> It would still be worth doing, IMHO.
Then let's do it. Care to resurrect your patch? (And yes, classic
classes should also be allowed for b/w compatibility.)
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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