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

[Collin Winter]

On 1/26/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Collin Winter wrote:
> > On 1/26/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> >> That wording doesn't seem to cover the case where
> >> E is an instance of a subclass of BaseException.
> >
> >>>> class A: pass
> >>>> class B(A): pass
> >>>> isinstance(B(), A)
>
> Technically I suppose it's right, but it doesn't sound
> very clear to me.
>
> Maybe something like
>
>     E may be an exception class or an instance of an
>     exception class. Valid exception classes are
>     BaseException and its subclasses.

I'll use that.

Thanks,
Collin Winter