[Python-Dev] RE: PEP-317

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:11 AM 6/10/03 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>But I'm not at all happy with the proposed deprecation of
>
>   raise Class
>
>and
>
>   raise Class, arguments
>
>in favor of
>
>   raise Class()
>
>and
>
>   raise Class(arguments)

You know what's really funny...  ever since Python 2.1 or thereabouts, I 
had the impression that it *had* been deprecated, and I started teaching 
myself to use the "newer" form.  I really don't remember *where* I got that 
impression though.  I did find one nice side effect, however...  It's a lot 
easier to put a helpful message in the exception if you use parentheses and 
can therefore wrap lines.  So, it turned out to be good style to do 'raise 
Class(args)' for reasons that had nothing to do with whyever I started.