Exception handling

[Aahz]

In article <lksn52vpf0.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>,
Michael Hudson  <mwh at python.net> wrote:
>Philip Swartzleonard <starx at pacbell.net> writes:
>> Michael Hudson || Wed 08 May 2002 03:58:31a:
>>> Järvinen Petri <jarvin24 at lehtori.cc.tut.fi> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> I mean can I catch baseclass exception in my exception handler and
>>>> get all the derived classes catched aswell, like
>>> 
>>> Yes.  Didn't you try it?  Although A should have Exception amongst
>>> it's base classes...
>> 
>> Should it? 
>
>Yes, but it's only "should".  It's not enforced anywhere.  There was
>talk of making it enforced, but I don't think that got anywhere.

I believe Guido is still talking about doing this for Python 3.0.
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