[Python-Dev] PEP-317

[Greg Ewing]

Pat Miller <patmiller@llnl.gov>:

> I still "casually" use string exceptions mostly as a shortcut to get
> unfinished code to bomb (or to generate a quick traceback.
>
>   raise 'zz'

You could use

  assert 0, 'zz'

instead.

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