Weird exception in my, um, exception class constructor

[Paul Hankin]

On May 27, 9:21 pm, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgro... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I have a generic (do nothing) exception class that's coded like this:
>
> class MyError(exceptions.Exception):
>     def __init__(self,args=None):
>         self.args = args
>
> When I attempt to raise this exception via 'raise MyError' I get an exception
> within the MyError constructor __init__ as follows:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> [lines deleted]
>   File "c:\Documents and Settings\Joel.Kolstad\My Documents\Python\
> MyStuff.py", line 7, in __init__
>     self.args = args
> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>
> Ummm... why should 'args' have to be iterable anyway?  I don't understand
> what's going on here?  Could someone help me with this?

Did you actually write self,args = args?

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Paul Hankin