On 11/14/2013 4:55 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
About the only things I can think of which might break would be doctests, but people *expect* those to break across third-dot releases of Python (one reason why I hate them).
My impression is that we avoid enhancing correct exception messages in bugfix (third-dot) releases because of both doctests and other in-code examination of messages.
> Exception repr is explicitly *not* part of
any backward-compatibility guarantees in Python.
So we more freely change exception messages in version (second-dot) releases, without deprecation notices or waiting periods.
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