[Python-Dev] Exception masking/chaining

[Aahz]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003, Walter D=F6rwald wrote:
>
> So maybe the plan should look somethink like this:
>=20
> 1. Deprecate string exceptions.
>=20
> 2. Make Exception a new-style class.
>=20
> 3. Require exceptions to be derived from Exception.
>=20
> 4. Make the traceback an attribute of the exception object.

You've got point 2 too early; it needs to go after point 3 and posibly
after point 4.
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