On 3/7/06, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/7/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that my unittests should not rely on this, but is this change > > intended? > > > > c:\sf\ctypes_head>py24 > > Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on > > win32 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> str(Exception) > > 'exceptions.Exception' > > >>> ^Z > > > > > > c:\sf\ctypes_head>py > > Python 2.5a0 (trunk:42903M, Mar 7 2006, 22:01:07) [MSC v.1310 32 bit > > (Intel)] on win32 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> str(Exception) > > "<class 'exceptions.Exception'>" > > >>> ^Z > > It's a side-effect of making built-in exceptions new-style classes. > Not sure how you would override the string representation of a class > anyway to fix this.
IMO it shouldn't be fixed. Classic classes define their str to print the module name and class name with a dot in between; new-style classes use the same format as their repr. Making exceptions new-style classes is going to break a number of things; that's just inevitable. -- --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
