[Python-Dev] PEP 344: Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks

[Walter Dörwald]

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

> [...]
>     (a) ban string exceptions
>     (b) require all exceptions to derive from Exception
>     (c) ban bare "except:"
>     (d) eliminate sys.exc_*

I think somewhere in this list should be:

       (?) Remove string exceptions from the Python stdlib

and perhaps:

       (?) Make Exception a new style class

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald