[Python-Dev] Deprecating string exceptions

[Guido van Rossum]

> 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/)