New-style exceptions?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Is there a reason why new-style objects can't be used in the raise
statement?

>>> class Error(object): pass
...
>>> raise Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type

This seems like an artificial restriction...

(Using 2.2)

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