Exception Handling in Python 3

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Oct 25 00:01:02 EDT 2010


On 10/24/2010 7:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> which means, AFAICT, that re-binding ‘__class__’ is only allowed for
> objects of a type defined in the Python run-time heap, not those defined
> in C code (like the built-in-exception types).

Yeah, that's a given. Ruby would probably let you do that, but Python
insists that you don't dick around with the built-in types. And roghtly
so, IMHO.

regards
 Steve
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