"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
I didn't read most of this length thread the first time through, but I did run into the bug today in my own code and tried to fix it. I added a patch to 518846 that allows instances of new style classes, where the check is implemented by checking Py_TPFLAGS_HEAPTYPE, which is only defined for objects created by class statements (I think).
This doesn't seem to cause any change in the behavior of string-based exceptions. I don't think it's necessary to have "except str:" catch string-based exceptions, because they're supported solely for backwards compatibility.
There was also some discussion of making exceptions inherit from Exception, but I think that's a separate issue.
Any reason not to commit the patch?
GvR> In how many places have you posted about this issue? This is GvR> the third place where I see you trying to get people's GvR> attention. What's the urgency? :-) There's no urgency at all but a bug report isn't the right place for the discussin, nor is our group's private email. I didn't think that raising the question in the appropriate forum constituted emergency action :-). GvR> I don't think the patch is ready yet, see my comment on SF. If GvR> we decide that anything needs to be done in this area I want to GvR> look at it first, so please don't check anything in yet. Did I miss the consensus on inheriting from Exception? I tried to review the earlier thread, but the early stuff didn't have much on Exception and the later stuff seemed to be about documentation. So it must be buried in the middle if it's there :-). At any rate, I don't understand why it is helpful for classes to inherit from exception. I am also curious -- this is off-topic for exceptions -- what the right way to check for a new-style class is? And what other things define Py_TPFLAGS_HEAPTYPE? Jeremy