[Python-Dev] PEP 409 - final?

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 01:49:32 CET 2012


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tim Delaney
<timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 3) Should it be an exception, or just inherit from object?
>>   Is it worth worrying about somebody trying to raise it, or
>>   raise from it?
>
> If it's not actually an exception, we get prevention of instantiation for
> free. My feeling is just make it a singleton object.

Yeah, a new Ellipsis/None style singleton probably makes more sense
than an exception instance.

Cheers,
Nick.

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