[Python-Dev] Exceptions *must*? be old-style classes?

[Michael Hudson]

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

>> My design decision was to make Exception new-style.  Things can be
>> raised if they are instances of old-style classes or instances of
>> Exception.  If this meets with general agreement, I'd like to check
>> the above patch in.
>
> I like it, but didn't you forget to mention that strings can still be
> raised? I think we can't break that (but we can insert a deprecation
> warning for this in 2.5 so we can hopefully deprecate it in 2.6, or
> 2.7 at the latest).

I try to forget that as much as possible :)

>> The patch also updates the PendingDeprecationWarning on raising a
>> string exception to a full DeprecationWarning (something that should
>> be done anyway).
>
> What I said. :-)

:)

I'll try to bash the documentation into shape next.

Cheers,
mwh

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