About some problem

[André Malo]

* 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.

Oh? Doesn't look like it.

$ cat x.py
try:
    raise "foo"
except:
    print "bar"

$ python2.7 x.py
bar
$ python2.6 x.py
bar

A lone '''raise "foo"''' raises a TypeError, though.

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