March 27, 2002
12:30 p.m.
Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
Should it be arbitrary objects or just subclasses of exception: "It is recommended that user-defined exceptions in new code be derived from Exception, although for backward compatibility reasons, this is not required. Eventually this rule will be tightened."
[Martin]
If that is the rule, the bug report can be closed as "not-a-bug".
I seem to have a particularly dense day. :-( What does "that" (in "If that is the rule") refer back to? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)