[Python-3000] Pre-peps on raise and except changes

[Brett Cannon]

On 1/23/07, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > The 2-expression "raise" statement translation is incorrect in the general
> > case; it is possible for the second argument to be an instance of the first
> > argument, in which case 'raise E, V' should become just 'raise V'.  This is
> > not detectable by the refactoring tool, AFAIK.
>
> There is another issue which currently isn't entirely clear in this PEP
> or in PEP 352 - what happens to except statements which raise a subtype
> of Exception instead of an instance of it.
>

>From PEP 352's perspective, it should still work.  The PEP only made
exceptions new-style and ditched some methods.  It in no way addresses
changes in syntax.

-Brett