[Python-Dev] Bare except clauses in PEP 348

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/24/05, Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:
>> I really hope string exceptions can be killed off before 3.0.  They
>> should be fully deprecated in 2.5.
>
> But what about class exceptions that don't inherit from Exception?
> That will take a while before we can deprecate that.

Oh, for sure.  I didn't mean to imply anything else.

Cheers,
mwh

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