Aug. 3, 2004
8:14 p.m.
P.S. - Command line switch for command line switch :-), a switch for fully turning on the newer type system would be more productive than `-U', and put some pressure for refreshening the library in this area. Just curious, as I do not intend to volunteer in this area, is there something else than Exception in the Python internals that rely on old-style classes?
Probably not, but making Exception a new-style class won't be easy. (It will also break code that creates a class used as an exception that doesn't derive from Exception, but those should be shot. :-) Until Exception is a new-style class, such a switch wouldn't really work. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)