Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?

[Steven Bethard]

Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
> 1) From 2.4.2 documentation:
> There are two new valid (semantic) forms for the raise statement:
> raise Class, instance
> raise instance

Check `PEP 8`_ -- the latter form is preferred:

"""
When raising an exception, use "raise ValueError('message')" instead of 
the older form "raise ValueError, 'message'".
"""

.. _PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

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