Python Distilled

[Jorge Godoy]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> writes:

> In <1162790565.418382.237050 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, Simon Wittber
> wrote:
>
>> I'd also like to remove any deprecated or stuff which is left in for
>> backwards functionality (eg Classic classes).
>
> Classic classes are still needed for exceptions:
>
>>>> class E(object):
> ...    pass
> ...
>>>> raise E
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: exceptions must be classes, instances, or strings (deprecated),
> not type

On the other hand...

>>> import exceptions
>>> class E(exceptions.Exception):
...     pass
... 
>>> raise E
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
__main__.E
>>> 


This also has the advantage to let it explicit in the code that E is an
exception. 


-- 
Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy at gmail.com>