[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib getopt.py,1.7,1.8

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "Guido" == Guido van Rossum <guido@cnri.reston.va.us> writes:

    Guido> Anybody got a reason why -X should stay?

Kill it.

    Guido> (The next step would be to outlaw raise with a string
    Guido> argument; I think I can't make that for 1.6.  But it would
    Guido> be a good idea to scan the standard library for string
    Guido> exceptions and convert all of them.)

Or require that exception classes be derived from exceptions.Exception
:)

-Barry