subclassing Exceptions

[Greg Ewing]

phawkins at spamnotconnact.com wrote:
> 
> >>> raise strExceptionWithArg, "no thanks"

Shouldn't that be

   raise strExceptionWithArg("no thanks")

?

According to my reading of the docs, the first form
is illegal, since if the exception is a class and a 
value is supplied it is supposed to be a subclass of the
exception class.

The real mystery is why it seems to work in some
cases anyway...

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