[Python-Dev] Deprecating string exceptions

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:06:24 -0600


    SM> Taking a quick peek at my own code, the only place I see that
    SM> strings are raised is in code that works with ZServer
    SM> (e.g. "raise 'redirect'").
    BAW> ---------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    BAW> That's kind of scary Skip!

That's what ZServer does or did require.  Fortunately for me, this is in
code that isn't actually used anymore.  From Guido's response, it sounds
like ZServer is getting away from that.

Skip