[Pythonmac-SIG] Problem in EasyDialogs???[Sec=Unclassified]

[Ned Deily]

In article <1248999001.3965.0.camel at mjoakes-desktop>,
 mathew oakes <mathew.oakes at aad.gov.au> wrote:
> on Leopard 10.5.6 using python2.6.2 from macports
> 
> When asking for multiple select in file dialog, get an error:
> 
> raise Nav.error, arg
> TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances, not str
> 
> I can find the exception declared in this file:
> /opt/local/Library/Framewords/Python.Framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-
> dynload/Nav.so
> 
> So this is preventing me from finding out what my actual error is, but I
> notice that the same exception is used elsewhere.
> 
> files = EasyDialogs.AskFileForOpen( message='Select files to recover:',
> multiple=True )

It appears that EasyDialogs is still using string exceptions which have 
been deprecated for some time and finally removed in Python 2.6.  
Unfortunately, EasyDialogs itself, along with a number of other obsolete 
Mac modules from the Classic Mac OS ( <= 9) era, have been marked as 
deprecated in 2.6 and removed in Python 3 so there will be little 
incentive to fix it, though you're welcome to open an issue on the 
python bug tracker.  If you can, it would be best to migrate away from 
use of EasyDialogs now.  Short of that, you may have better luck with 
using it from Python 2.5.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org