Exceptions' Behaviour

[Tom Good]

Martin Sj?ren <martin at strakt.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.995526636.21726.python-list at python.org>...
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:58:43AM -0700, Tom Good wrote:
> > Martin Sj?ren <martin at strakt.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.995459
> 309.19355.python-list at python.org>...
> 

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> 
> Yes I know that, but that's not what I'm asking. What I'm asking is why i
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> >>> raise ("a","b")
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> the "b" disappears? IMO that's a pretty weird behaviour. Yes anybody usin
> g
> non-class exceptions derived from Exception in a real-world program are
> insane, but this is a puristic thing of mine. :-)
> 
> Martin

I agree, it is kind of weird, and I don't know why it works that way. 
I would probably expect trying to raise a tuple to generate an error.


Tom