On 3/19/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have we really being telling them to derive *directly* > from Exception, or just that deriving somehow from > Exception will become mandatory?
It doesn't matter. Most code that tries to be a good citizen today derives its exceptions from Exception. > For the purpose of minimising bare-except problems, > recommending direct derivation from Exception seems > like a particularly bad idea, whether the exception > hierarchy is changed or not. Why? With PEP 352 (== HEAD status quo) this works just fine. I have a problem with using Error as the focal point since so many exceptions (user-defined or otherwise) aren't errors. Not to mention the Warnings which sometimes can be raised as Errors (but without changing their type). -- --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
