[Python-Dev] Exception Reorg PEP checked in

[Nick Coghlan]

Since I forgot to mention it in the last couple of messages - this version 
looks very good. The transition strategy section makes it a lot more meaningful.

Brett Cannon wrote (in the PEP):
> Renamed Exceptions
> 
> Renamed exceptions will directly subclass the new names. When the old
> exceptions are instantiated (which occurs when an exception is caught,
> either by a try statement or by propagating to the top of the execution
> stack), a PendingDeprecationWarning will be raised.

Nice trick with figuring out how to raise the deprecation warning :)
(That line was going to read 'Why not just create an alias?', but then I 
worked out what you were doing, and why you were doing it)

One case that this doesn't completely address is NameError, as it is the only 
renamed exception which currently has a subclass. In this case, I think that 
during the transmition phase, all three of the 'Unbound*Error' exceptions 
should inherit from NameError, with NameError inheriting from NamespaceError.

I believe it should still be possible to get the deprecation warning to work 
correctly in this case (by not raising the warning when a subclass is 
instantiated).

In the 'just a type' category, WeakReferenceError should still be under 
StandardError in the hierarchy.

Cheers,
Nick.

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