Guido van Rossum wrote:
It should derive from BaseException.
RuntimeError meets that requirement, and it is an existing exception so there are no issues with introducing a new built-in exception to a point release.
py> issubclass(RuntimeError, BaseException) True -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
