June 9, 2003
4:45 p.m.
Steven Taschuk writes:
This came up in python-list not long ago [1], and I raised (heh) exactly that argument. Alex Martelli counterargued that exceptions are one area in which we *do* usually care about isinstance relationships, since that's how we specify which exceptions to catch.
This is a good point. So I'll find it annoying, but it does make sense, so I'll get over it (eventually). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation