About some problem

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/03/2014 12:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> André Malo wrote:
>
>> * 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.
>
> Oh, it's a runtime TypeError, not SyntaxError.

The main point being that in 2.6 and 2.7 string exceptions do /not/ work.

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~Ethan~