Python Mystery Theatre -- Episode 1: Exceptions

[Erik Max Francis]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> This is probably an example of an error promoted by leaving the
> redundant "raise Class,args" form of exception-raising in Python,
> instead of having a single obvious way: "raise Class(args)" as
> would be more Pythonic. ;-)

But, as I recall, PEP 317 was outright rejected, so it looks like this
will be with us for a long time.

I personally have never had a problem with the distinction, raise C, x
always seemed fairly clean to me even though really what you mean is
raise C(x).

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