New style classes as exceptions (Was: exception handing)

[Steve Holden]

"Jonathan Hogg" <jonathan at onegoodidea.com> wrote in message
news:B9467E62.D435%jonathan at onegoodidea.com...
> On 1/7/2002 18:02, in article
> 7V%T8.69851$F16.33443 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com, "Steve Holden"
> <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
[...problems subclassing Exception and using object as an additional
base...]
>
> I think it's obvious that the answer is Well Don't Do That. But ...
>
> > I think it's currently a feature, but it will doubtless become a bug if
this
> > situation continues for too long...
>
> ... as you say, if new-style classes are the future, and certainly the
> present now, then it doesn't make much sense to not be able to raise them.
>

I'm sure they'd welcome a patch on python-dev ;-)  and I believe it's
Guido's intention that new-styles will eventually include Exception. In
fact, new-style classes will probably be all there is eventually

but-they'll-look-so-like-old-style-ones-we-won't-notice-ly y'rs  - steve
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