[issue12029] Catching virtual subclasses in except clauses

[andrew cooke]

andrew cooke <andrew at acooke.org> added the comment:

perhaps it could just work in a simple, consistent way?

in my original report i wondered whether there was a significant performance hit.  but so far the objections against fixing this seem to be (1) a lawyer could be convinced the current behaviour is consistent with the docs (2) python 3 should remain compatible with python 2 (3) abcmeta is the sucksorz.

those don't seem like great arguments against making it just work right, to me.

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