Guido van Rossum wrote:
(The next step would be to outlaw raise with a string argument; I think I can't make that for 1.6. But it would be a good idea to scan the standard library for string exceptions and convert all of them.)
This would be waaaaay to big a change for Python 1.x. There are alot of Python modules outside the standard distribution that use string exceptions. This would be a huge backward incompatability. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.