June 9, 2003
6:38 p.m.
Pat Miller <patmiller@llnl.gov>:
I still "casually" use string exceptions mostly as a shortcut to get unfinished code to bomb (or to generate a quick traceback.
raise 'zz'
You could use assert 0, 'zz' instead. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+