So here's a radical proposal (hear the scratching of the finglernail on the blackboard? :-).
Start with Brett's latest proposal. Goal: keep bare "except:" but change it to catch only the part of the hierarchy rooted at StandardError. - Call the root of the hierarchy Raisable. - Rename CriticalException to CriticalError (this should happen anyway). - Rename ControlFlowException to ControlFlowRaisable (anything except Error or Exception). - Rename StandardError to Exception. - Make Warning a subclass of Exception. I'd want the latter point even if the rest of this idea is rejected; when a Warning is raised (as opposed to just printing a message or being suppressed altogether) it should be treated just like any other normal exception, i.e. StandardError. -- --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
