At 09:58 09.06.2003 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
I think it would only be fair to add:
"If this proposal is adopted, nearly every piece of non-trivial
"Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettinger@verizon.net> wrote in message news:001f01c32e41$b4b7c440$4827a044@oemcomputer... python
code that has ever been written would need to be revised or would fail to run. Likewise, most tutorial and book examples would also fail."
A conversion utility that converted 'raise item' to 'raise item()' and 'raise item,arg' to 'raise item(arg)' would definitely be helpful. A working version, or at least a promise to produce one on acceptance might make the PEP more palatable.
given that in: raise X raise X,y raise X(...) (likely) in most cases X is a builtin/global constant/or comes straight from an import, such a static analysis tool should be doable, for the rest the user could be informed about non-straightforward cases like: def raise_(X,y): raise X,y regards.