[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib getopt.py,1.7,1.8

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:59:55 -0500 (EST)


Guido van Rossum writes:
 > I wish I had done it right from the start -- then exceptions would
 > have been classes from the start and would have required inheritance
 > from the Exception base class.  Like in Java.  (And in C++?)

  I've seen this said or hinted at in a couple of places (the specific 
requirement that exception derive from Exception), but I've seen
nothing that indicates any reason or derived value for this.  Could
someone please clarify?


  -Fred

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