[Python-Dev] PEP 3151 accepted

[Giampaolo Rodolà]

2011/10/12 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:22:43 -0400
> Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> As the BDFOP for PEP 3151, I hereby accept it for inclusion into Python 3.3.
>>
>> Congratulations to Antoine for producing a great PEP that has broad acceptance
>> in the Python development community, with buy-in from all the major
>> implementations of Python.  Antoine's branch is ready to go and it should now
>> be merged into the default branch.
>>
>> PEP 3151 will bring some much needed sanity to this part of the standard
>> exception hierarchy, and I for one look forward to being able to write code
>> directly using it, one day finally eliminating most of my `import errno`s!
>
> Thanks Barry!
> I expect to merge the PEP 3151 into default soon (it's basically ready).
>
> cheers
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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Thank you for having worked on this, it was a pretty huge amount of work.
We'll probabily have to wait a long time before seeing libs/apps
freely depending on this change without caring about backward
compatibility constraints, but with this Python is a better language
now.


--- Giampaolo
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