Guido van Rossum wrote:
The question is, whether, given
class Base:pass class MyExc(Base, Exception):pass
it would be valid to write
try: foo() # raises MyExc except Base: pass
The "except Base:" class would of course be illegal because Base doesn't derive from Exception. (Although the error might only be detected when MyExc is raised -- but PyChecker could do better.) But the statement "raise MyExc" would be perfectly legal, and could be caught either with "except MyExc" or "except Exception".
There are several problems in the std library now: bdb.py:9 BdbQuit is a string exception macpath.py:173 norm_error is a string exception tabnanny.py:48 NannyNag does not derive from Exception xdrlib.py:12 ConversionError (Error) does not derive from Exception Shall I make all of these derive from Exception? Is there any potential problems with doing so? Neal