Brett C. wrote: > Seems like, especially if we require inheritance from a base exception class > in > Python 3000, exceptions should have standard 'arg' and 'traceback' attributes > with a possible 'context' attribute (or always a 'context' attribute set to > None if not a chained exception).
Instead of an 'args' attribute, I'd suggest that the constructor take keyword arguments and store them in corresponding attributes. Then interested parties could retrieve them by name instead of having to remember their positions in the args tuple of the exception class concerned. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
