[Python-Dev] Tidier Exceptions

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 13 07:15:08 CEST 2005


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> It won't fly as long as we have string exceptions (since there's
> nowhere to put the traceback) but once those are dead I like it a lot.

Are there plans as to when string exceptions will be
exterminated? Surely the only places they're used now
are in some very old library modules.

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