On 2/1/2012 7:49 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tim Delaney > <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 3) Should it be an exception, or just inherit from object? >>> Is it worth worrying about somebody trying to raise it, or >>> raise from it? >> >> If it's not actually an exception, we get prevention of instantiation for >> free. My feeling is just make it a singleton object. > > Yeah, a new Ellipsis/None style singleton probably makes more sense > than an exception instance.
But now we're adding a new singleton, unrelated to exceptions (other than its name) because we don't want to use an existing singleton (False). Maybe the name difference is good enough justification. Eric. _______________________________________________ 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
