(Repeat, somehow the message to which I replied had python-ideas@googlegroups.com which doesn't exist.) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

That's just asking for more mysterious errors if you forget the colon. You can always write

class Foo(Bar): pass

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:57 PM, nbv4 <nbvfour@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Instead of

class CustomException(Exception):     pass

how about just

class CustomException(Exception)

(no colon, no 'pass') I'm sure this has been suggested before, but I couldn't find any...

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