[Python-Dev] Breaking bug #411881 into manageable pieces

[David Ascher]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> David Ascher wrote:
> >
> > Makes me wonder if it makes sense to move KeyboardInterrupt up the
> > hierarchy and promote the use of StandardError...
> 
> it would have been great if it had been done that way
> from the beginning, but can we really change this now?
> 
> (if we can, +1 from here)

It would be relatively simple to define a new error type which did what
we wanted, and slowly deprecated StandardError.  

Once again, it'd be nice if all Python source ever written had to be
stored somewhere so we could measure the impact of language changes. 
Hmm -- maybe a slight change to ceval.c and its Jython equivalent could
help =)

--david