[Python-Dev] PEP-317

[Michael Hudson]

Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003, Steven Taschuk wrote:
>> Quoth Brett C.:
>>>
>>> I am +1 on deprecating string exceptions for Python 3.
>> 
>> PEP 317 actually proposes formally deprecating them in 2.4, and
>> eliminating them entirely in 3.0.  Are you +1 on that?
>
> Given how deeply embedded string exceptions are in Python, 

How deep is that?  'python -X' went away, causing no pain at all as
far as I could tell.

> I believe that we cannot afford to issue a DeprecationWarning until
> we start doing the same for integer division.

$ python -E -Wall
Python 2.3b1+ (#1, May  6 2003, 18:00:11) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-112.7.2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> raise "hello"
__main__:1: PendingDeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
hello

We don't seem to do that for integer division yet.

Cheers,
M.

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