[Python-Dev] Re: PEP-317

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:

> But I still call YAGNI on this use case until I hear a good reason why
> you'd ever want to raise a 3rd party class and it's not (a) for
> backwards compatibility reasons or (b) just as easy to raise another
> class with this class instance as an attribute.

I'm happy with that.

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