Why exception is not newstyle class?

[Jp Calderone]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:49:35PM -0800, kyo wrote:
> 
> I want to use new style class, how to do that?
> If I can't, Why?

  Because Exceptions existed before new-style classes did, and the mechanism
has not yet caught up.

  Jp