On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:35:53 -0500, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:06 PM 1/17/05 +0000, Michael Hudson wrote: > >a) Is Exception to be new-style? > > Probably not in 2.5; Martin and others have suggested that this could > introduce instability for users' existing exception classes.
Really? I thought that was eventually decided to be a very small amount of code.
Guess I missed that part of the thread in the ongoing flood of PEP 246 stuff. :)
That would be much more reasonable if Exception itself was a new-style class. As long as it isn't, you'd have to declare new-style classes like this:
class MyError(Exception, object): ...
which is ugly.
I was thinking the use case was that you were having to add 'Exception', not that you were adding 'object'. The two times in the past that I wanted to make a new-style class an exception, I *first* made it a new-style class, and *then* tried to make it an exception. I believe the OP on this thread described the same thing.
But whatever; as long as it's *possible*, I don't care much how it's done, and I can't think of anything in my code that would break from making Exception new-style.
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