[Python-3000] Pre-peps on raise and except changes

[Collin Winter]

On 1/23/07, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > The 2-expression "raise" statement translation is incorrect in the general
> > case; it is possible for the second argument to be an instance of the first
> > argument, in which case 'raise E, V' should become just 'raise V'.  This is
> > not detectable by the refactoring tool, AFAIK.
>
> There is another issue which currently isn't entirely clear in this PEP
> or in PEP 352 - what happens to except statements which raise a subtype
> of Exception instead of an instance of it.
>
> It's currently implicit that this will continue to be allowed (with
> subtypes being automatically instantiated with no arguments) - I think
> that behaviour should be explicitly stated as intentional in the new
> Py3k PEP.

Does this language work for you?

"""
2. ``raise E`` (with a single argument) is used to raise a new
   exception. This form has two sub-variants: ``E`` may be either an
   instance of ``BaseException`` [#pep352]_ or a subclass of
   ``BaseException``. If ``E`` is a subclass, it will be called with
   no arguments to obtain an exception instance.

   To raise anything else is an error.
"""

Thanks,
Collin Winter