[Python-Dev] Exception Reorg PEP checked in

[Brett Cannon]

On 8/4/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:

> This does contradict my earlier claim that Python itself doesn't use
> RuntimeError; I think I'd be happier if it remained RuntimeError. (I
> think there are a few more uses of it inside Python itself; I don't
> think it's worth inventing new exceptions for all these.)
> 

I just realized that keeping RuntimeError still does not resolve the
issue that the name kind of sucks for realizing intrinsically that it
is for quick-and-dirty exceptions (or am I the only one who thinks
this?).  Should we toss in a subclass called SimpleError?

-Brett