[Python-Dev] Exception Reorg PEP checked in

[Brett Cannon]

On 8/4/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Great to hear!

> 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)
> 

Thanks.

> 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).
> 

Ah, didn't think about that issue.  Yeah, as long as you don't call a
superclass' __init__ it should still work.

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

Yeah, that is an error from trying adding StandardError back in.

-Brett