"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@egenix.com> writes:
To me ...
try: ... except Exception, errobj: # catches all exceptions pass
... is the most natural way of using that single root (and it already works great today).
Well, uh, it's not totally bullet proof:
class C: pass ... [24618 refs] try: raise C ... except Exception, err: print err ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? __main__.C: <__main__.C instance at 0x403a7814> [24654 refs]
but I this really doesn't seem to happen in the wild. (I have a hacky patch which makes exceptions new-style which I'll post in a moment). Cheers, mwh -- Lisp nearing the age of 50 is the most modern language out there. GC, dynamic, reflective, the best OO model extant including GFs, procedural macros, and the only thing old-fashioned about it is that it is compiled and fast. -- Kenny Tilton, comp.lang.python