Python Distilled

[Georg Brandl]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote in message 
> news:pan.2006.11.06.10.11.35.335058 at gmx.net...
>> In <1162790565.418382.237050 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, Simon Wittber
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd also like to remove any deprecated or stuff which is left in for
>>> backwards functionality (eg Classic classes).
>>
>> Classic classes are still needed for exceptions:
>>
>>>>> class E(object):
>> ...    pass
>> ...
>>>>> raise E
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> TypeError: exceptions must be classes, instances, or strings (deprecated),
>> not type
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
> 
> I thought exceptions were converted to new-style classes for Py2.5 
> (http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/pep-352.html).

Yes, they were. Still, you can't raise instance of arbitrary new-style classes
as exceptions, and you will never be able to. In Py3k, only instances of
"BaseException" subclasses will be raisable.

Georg