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

[Jim Fulton]

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

This would be waaaaay to big a change for Python 1.x. There are alot
of Python modules outside the standard distribution that use string 
exceptions. This would be a huge backward incompatability. 

Jim

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