Re: [Python-Dev] GeneratorExit inheriting from Exception

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

OTOH, I also understand that people have been told that deriving from Exception is the right thing to do forever now.

Have we really being telling them to derive *directly* from Exception, or just that deriving somehow from Exception will become mandatory? For the purpose of minimising bare-except problems, recommending direct derivation from Exception seems like a particularly bad idea, whether the exception hierarchy is changed or not. Greg