[C++-sig] Howto expose exception classes using boost.python?

[David Abrahams]

"Roman Yakovenko" <roman.yakovenko at gmail.com> writes:

>> As far as I know, Python requires that the exceptions must be
>> delivered from PyExc_Exception, or a class which is delivered from
>> PyExc_Exception,
>
> Are you sure? Where did you read it?

Officially, it does require that exceptions be derived from
PyExc_Exception (I don't remember where that's documented), but
unofficially, you can throw anything :)

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