On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:58:48AM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Deprecation is only warranted if the interim substitute works -- > AFAICT, there is no other way to broadly catch exceptions not > derived from Exception.
This seems to get to the heart of the problem. I'm no fan of bare excepts but I think we could handle them in 2.x (at least for the next few releases) by providing a workable alternative and then strongly discouraging their use (like we do for "from x import *"). Neil _______________________________________________ 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
