[Python-Dev] str(Exception) changed, is that intended?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:35 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> IMO it shouldn't be fixed. Classic classes define their str to print
> the module name and class name with a dot in between; new-style
> classes use the same format as their repr. Making exceptions new-style
> classes is going to break a number of things; that's just inevitable.

What else do you expect to break?  Should we at least try to describe
expected breakage in PEP 352?

-Barry

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