[Python-Dev] Python in Unicode context

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

>> Maybe we can accept old-style classes and instances, strings, and
>> instances of Exception and its subclasses.
>
> Seems to me the point at which we start allowing new-style classes as
> exceptions should also be the point at which we drop the idea of
> string exceptions. Would that help?

It would probably make things a little simpler, but probably not in a
major way.

Cheers,
mwh

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