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

[Nick Coghlan]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Jim Jewett wrote:
>> it even clears up the pathological
>> case of an object which is both a subclass and an instance of
>> BaseException.
> 
> Is that possible???

Strange but true (Python 2.4):

 >>> class DumbMeta(type, Exception): pass
...
 >>> class WTF(object, Exception):
...     __metaclass__ = DumbMeta
...
 >>> isinstance(WTF, Exception)
True
 >>> issubclass(WTF, Exception)
True

Cheers,
Nick.

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