Python Mystery Theatre -- Episode 1: Exceptions

[John J. Lee]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:

> In article <3F0FC088.3C56EDEA at alcyone.com>,
> Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> Prohibited: <unprintable instance object>
> >
> >Is this some IDLE-specific thing?  
> 
> Nope, the point here is that
> 
> raise Prohibited
> 
> will always create a Prohibited() instance.  (See also Peter's post
> about One True Way for exceptions.)

Perhaps Erik was wondering, as I was, where that "<unprintable instance
object>" came from.  On my machine, 2.3b1 doesn't print that in
response to Raymond's example code.  Maybe it's from 2.3b2 (which I'm
downloading ATM), or IDLE, or something else?


John