Preferred exception style?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Bengt Richter:
  [...]
> ISTM it could be useful to use keyword parameters and just do self.__dict__.update(kw)
> so they'd show up as exception instance attributes, like errno, etc., e.g.,
  [...]
>  ...     raise X2(1,2,3, one=1,two=2)
  [...]
>  >>> vars(e)
>  {'args': (1, 2, 3), 'two': 2, 'one': 1}

I'd prefer to see e.args and e.kwargs, to avoid name collisions.
(What if one of the keyword arguments is called "args", for
example?)

This is unrelated to the question of the syntax for raising
exceptions, of course.

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Steven Taschuk                staschuk at telusplanet.net
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