New style classes as exceptions (Was: exception handing)

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1025561284.5937.python-list at python.org>,
holger krekel  <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <mailman.1025531582.7339.python-list at python.org>,
>> Denis S. Otkidach <ods at fep.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>>New style classes don't work when used as exceptions.  I guess it
>>>should be considered as a bug.
>> 
>> Nope, that's just the way it currently works.
>
>what's your definition of a bug, then?

Something that doesn't work as designed.  Guido specifically decided to
wait on making new-style classes work with exceptions -- there are still
too many applications using *string* exceptions.
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