2010/8/23 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > The main problem I can see with letting exceptions other than > AttributeError bubble through (besides perverted dependencies on the > current semantics) is that there are some situations where it is > pretty arbitrary whether TypeError or AttributeError is raised. I > can't recall the details, and possibly this was more of a problem with > classic classes, but I do think it warrants some research.
I believe this was with regards to actual operations, though, not fetching the attribute. For example, float(a) would raise an AttributeError for a classic instance and a TypeError for a new-style instance. However both would raise AttributeError on a.__float__. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
