March 27, 2002
5:10 p.m.
Also, I believe that using your class Z as an exception class should not be supported: a "proper" exception should not just merely inherit from Exception - it should have Exception as its only root class (Z has both object and Exception as root classes).
I think that rule is too strong, and I don't see a reason for it. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)