On 2017-06-29 19:19, Thomas Jollans wrote:
[snip]
Ah, Python history.
Back in the old days, it was possible to raise strings instead of the
classes that took over later.
Python 2.4.6 (#1, Jun 29 2017, 19:23:06)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux4
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try:
... raise 'error', 'message'
... except:
... import sys
... print sys.exc_info()
...
('error', 'message', <traceback object at 0x7fe297171128>)
This was deprecated in 2.5, and (I think?) removed in 2.7.
Deprecated in 2.5, gone in 2.6.
From looking at the old documentation, I have a suspicion that until
Python 1.4 (or even earlier than that) the exception "value" was
actually never an exception instance. (I'm afraid I can't find a way to
install 1.4 and test it on my computer. At least not a reasonable one.)
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