On 8/5/05, Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/4/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum@gmail.com> wrote:
This does contradict my earlier claim that Python itself doesn't use RuntimeError; I think I'd be happier if it remained RuntimeError. (I think there are a few more uses of it inside Python itself; I don't think it's worth inventing new exceptions for all these.)
I just realized that keeping RuntimeError still does not resolve the issue that the name kind of sucks for realizing intrinsically that it is for quick-and-dirty exceptions (or am I the only one who thinks this?). Should we toss in a subclass called SimpleError?
I don't think so. People should feel free to use whatever pre-existing exception they like, even Exception. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)