Python Distilled

[Paul McGuire]

"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:pan.2006.11.06.10.11.35.335058 at gmx.net...
> 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
>
> Ciao,
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

I thought exceptions were converted to new-style classes for Py2.5 
(http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/pep-352.html).  I've not upgraded yet, so 
cannot easily test this - under what version of Python was your posted code 
run?

-- Paul