[Greg Ewing] > Are there plans as to when string exceptions will be > exterminated? Surely the only places they're used now > are in some very old library modules.
No concrete plans; I was always planning to abandon them in 3.0 but haven't felt the need to do it sooner. Last I looked Zope 2 still depended on them (especially in the bowels of ZODB); maybe Tim Peters knows if that's still the case. If you want to do it sooner, maybe we need a small PEP with the timeline (e.g. warn in Python 2.5, illegal in Python 2.6). Or perhaps a patch on SF is all that's needed. I expect it would be much more challenging to switch to the model where all exceptions derive from a single (new-style) base class. (And no, there are no plans to kill classic classes before 3.0 either.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
