[Pythonmac-SIG] MacOS.Error exceptions

[Jack Jansen]

On zaterdag, maart 30, 2002, at 08:12 , Donovan Preston wrote:
> The issue is that MacOS.Error, which is raised as an exception 
> from many of the toolbox modules, does not descend from 
> Exception. In the pre-python 2.2 class-type model, I'm not sure 
> it could have inherited from Exception, since it is defined in 
> a C module; I'm wondering if it's possible now, and for the 
> sake of consistency if we should try to make MacOS.Error 
> descend from Exception?

Purely an oversight on my part. Please post a bug report on the 
sourceforge tracker. And a patch will also gracefully be 
accepted, of course:-) I think the exception is created in 
pymactoolboxglue.c nowadays.
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