About some problem

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/02/2014 05:14 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 23:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> raise "Not Valid DB Type"
>>>
>>> is perfectly valid in Python 2.
>>
>> Actually, no it isn't. It's only valid up to Python 2.4. In Python 2.5,
>> string exceptions display a warning but continue to work, and in
>> Python 2.6
>> they generate a compile-time SyntaxError.
>>
>
> Thaanks for the correction.
>
>> You know how the world ended when Python 2.6 broke backwards
>> compatibility
>> and split the Python community into two? No, me neither.
>>
>
> I'm 100% certain that you're wrong on this one, the split was simply
> never noticed by anybody :)

Actually, the split was so severe the universe itself noticed and split 
into two -- one where folks noticed, and one where nobody did... I 
wonder which one we're in?

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~Ethan~