[Python-Dev] Deprecating string exceptions
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:08:14 -0500
> Is there any controversy that string exceptions should, eventually, be
> deprecated? If not, then let's come up with a road map for
> deprecating them, even if their use doesn't raise a deprecation
> warning in Python 2.3.
Good point. I do want to start deprecating them, but slowly because
they're used so much. Maybe you can draft a brief PEP?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)