problem with change to exceptions

[Alex Popescu]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote in
news:f8e0g4$o1u$1 at sea.gmane.org: 

> Alex Popescu wrote:
> 
>> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:f8dspe$fm2$1 at sea.gmane.org:
>> 
>
> [snip...]
>
>>> 
>> 
>> You can pass to the exception:
>> a) a string (it will become the message)
>> b) a tuple of values (can it be a list also?)
>> 
>> In your case there is no message, no values so args is NoneType.
>> 
> Yes, args is None.  So the assignment:
> self.args = args
> 
> should set self.args to None.  Nothing wrong there, and what has this
> got to do with NoneType being iterable? 
> 

args are used to generate the traceback when a message was not provided.

./alex
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