On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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 Sorry, I was ambiguous. I meant it should not derive from Exception. It goes RuntimeError -> StandardError -> Exception -> BaseException. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
