[Python-Dev] FW: PEP 8: exception style

2005-08-06 Thread Raymond Hettinger
PEP 8 doesn't express any preference between the two forms of raise statements: raise ValueError, 'blah' raise ValueError(blah) I like the second form better, because if the exception arguments are long or include string formatting, you don't need to use line continuation characters

Re: [Python-Dev] FW: PEP 8: exception style

2005-08-06 Thread Tim Peters
[AMK] PEP 8 doesn't express any preference between the two forms of raise statements: raise ValueError, 'blah' raise ValueError(blah) I like the second form better, because if the exception arguments are long or include string formatting, you don't need to use line continuation characters