Aug. 5, 2004
11:16 a.m.
Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
Maybe we can accept old-style classes and instances, strings, and instances of Exception and its subclasses.
Seems to me the point at which we start allowing new-style classes as exceptions should also be the point at which we drop the idea of string exceptions. Would that help?
It would probably make things a little simpler, but probably not in a major way. Cheers, mwh -- Or if you happen to be resigned to the size of your trouser snake and would rather not be reminded of it, training a shared classifier to reject penis-enlargement spam stops Barry from getting the help he so desperately needs. -- Tim Peters, c.l.python