On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 11:53, Jack Diederich wrote: > In 2.4 & 2.3 does it make sense to raise an exception that multiply inherits > from both TypeError and AttributeError? If anyone currently does catch the > error raising only AttributeError will break their code. 2.5 should just > raise an AttributeError, of course.
Without introducing a new exception class (which I think is out of the question for anything but 2.5), the only common base is StandardError, which seems too general for this exception. -Barry
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