no module named exceptions?

[Chris Rebert]

> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Joaquin Abian <gatoygata2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In python 3.1,
>>
>> >>> import exceptions
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
>>    import exceptions
>> ImportError: No module named exceptions
>>
>> in 2.6 no exception is raised
>> It should be the same in 3.1, isnt it?

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Tommy Grav <tgrav at mac.com> wrote:
> This is what he is expecting. Importing exceptions works fine in 2.6.4, not
> so
> in python 3.1.
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Nov  3 2009, 18:12:54)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import exceptions
>>>>

It appears to have been removed between Python 3.1.2
(http://docs.python.org/py3k/modindex.html#cap-E) and Python 3.2a0
(http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/modindex.html#cap-E). Exactly why, I
don't know. I wasn't able to locate anything about it in a quick scan
of the Python 3000 PEPs.

Cheers,
Chris
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