[Python-Dev] PEP 352 Transition Plan

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/28/05, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:
> I don't follow why the PEP deprecates catching a category of exceptions
> in a different release than it deprecates raising them.  Why would a
> release allow catching something that cannot be raised?  I must be
> missing something here.

So conforming code can catch exceptions raised by not-yet conforming code.

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