16 Jan
2005
16 Jan
'05
2:07 a.m.
On 2005-01-16, at 02.57, Guido van Rossum wrote:
It's been suggested that all exceptions should inherit from Exception, but this would break tons of existing code, so we shouldn't enforce that until 3.0. (Is there a PEP for this? I think there should be.)
What would happen if Exception were made a new-style class, enforce inheritance from Exception for all new-style exceptions, and allow all old-style exceptions as before. Am I wrong in assuming that only the most esoteric exceptions inheriting from Exception would break by Exception becoming new-style? //Simon