2005/11/24, Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Interestingly, you can raise things that don't subclass Exception in > python. This was discussed before, and I firmly agree with, that zodb > conflicts should _not_ sublcass exception. That way, there's less chance > of them being caught by inexperienced programmers putting in try: except > Exception: 's. > > How would we go about making this change?
class my_own_exception: pass try: raise my_own_exception() except: print "Doesn't help against inexperienced programmers. sadly" You can even raise a string, which is accidently done in zope2 and where my with provided solution and unit test is pending. It is better to beat people using except: without good reasons. Patrick _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
