Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib getopt.py,1.7,1.8

Guido van Rossum writes:

I wish I had done it right from the start -- then exceptions would have been classes from the start and would have required inheritance from the Exception base class. Like in Java. (And in C++?)

I've seen this said or hinted at in a couple of places (the specific requirement that exception derive from Exception), but I've seen nothing that indicates any reason or derived value for this. Could someone please clarify? -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives