[Python-Dev] Re: PEP-317

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Terry Reedy:
  [...]
> A conversion utility that converted 'raise item' to 'raise item()' and
> 'raise item,arg' to 'raise item(arg)' would definitely be helpful.  A
> working version, or at least a promise to produce one on acceptance
> might make the PEP more palatable.

I do intend to write such a tool.

I'd imagined that, being PEP champion, I would be the obvious
person to produce the relevant patches to the standard library.
There are more than a thousand raise statements there, mostly of
the implicitly instantiating type, so you can bet I'm not doing it
by hand if I can avoid it.

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Steven Taschuk                               staschuk@telusplanet.net
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