> Crap, you're right.  It's not the case the ValueError derives from
> ArithmeticError.
>
> Thus, I now change my mind, and think you should *definitely* stick
> with ArithmeticError, for backwards compatibility, etc.

So the idea is that until the end of time the 'wrong' exception will be raised 
to maintain backward compatibility? That seems odd to me. I see that this 
isn't actually a big deal (raising the 'wrong' exception) but still, I vote 
for consistency over backward compatibility. 

Again, it seems a X.0 release might be the right place to change things like 
that.

Martin

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