On 9/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Heller</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:theller@python.net">theller@python.net</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is it an oversight that exception instances do no longer support<br>slicing in Python 2.5?<br><br>This code works in 2.4, but no longer in 2.5:<br><br>try:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;open(&quot;&quot;, &quot;r&quot;)<br>except IOError, details:
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;print details[:]</blockquote><div><br>Technically, yes.&nbsp; There is no entry in the sq_slice field for the PySequenceMethods struct.&nbsp; Although you can get to the list of arguments by going through the 'args' attribute if you need a quick fix.
<br><br>I have a fix in my checkout that I will check into the trunk shortly and into 25-maint as soon as Anthony unfreezes it.<br><br>-Brett<br></div><br></div>