[Python-Dev] PEP 8: exception style

[Brett Cannon]

On 8/6/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/6/05, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> > PEP 8 doesn't express any preference between the
> > two forms of raise statements:
> > raise ValueError, 'blah'
> > raise ValueError("blah")
> >
> > I like the second form better, because if the exception arguments are
> > long or include string formatting, you don't need to use line
> > continuation characters because of the containing parens.  Grepping
> > through the library code, the first form is in the majority, used
> > roughly 60% of the time.
> >
> > Should PEP 8 take a position on this?  If yes, which one?
> 
> Definitely ValueError('blah'). The other form will go away in Python
> 3000. Please update the PEP.
> 

Done.  rev. 1.18 .

-Brett