James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I'm changing my mind again about the names again. > > > > Exception as the root and StandardError can stay; the only new > > proposal would then be to make bare 'except:' call StandardError. > > I don't see how that can work. Any solution that is expected to > result in a usable hierarchy this century must preserve "Exception" > as the object that user exceptions should derive from (and therefore > that users should generally catch, as well). There is way too much > momentum behind that to change it.
Well, in the last few years I always derived my own exceptions from StandardError and used `except StandardError` instead of `except Exception`. And I'd love to get rid of the except KeyboardInterrupt: raise clause I currently have to write before any `except StandardError`. -- Christian Tanzer http://www.c-tanzer.at/ _______________________________________________ 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