[Python-3000] [Python-3000-checkins] r54510 - in python/branches/p3yk/Lib: ConfigParser.py test/test_file.py

[Brett Cannon]

On 3/21/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/21/07, brett.cannon <python-3000-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> > > When removing indexing/slicing on exceptions some places were changed
> > > inappropriately from ``e[0]`` to ``e.message`` instead of ``e.args[0]``.  The
> > > reason it needs to be the last option is the dichotomy of 'message' and 'args':
> > > 'message' can be the empty string but args[0] can have a value if more than one
> > > argument was passed.
> >
> > So e.args is going to stick around in 3.0?
>
> I think so.

I just posted on my blog about this.  I am curious to see what the
general public think, but I suspect it will stay as well.  I was
cranky at the sprint because of my 'args' removal.  Don't need to make
more people cranky.

> e.message OTOH I think we can kill (perhaps deprecate it
> in 2.6; it was added in 2.5, this may be a record :-).

Should we just consider this a PDFL pronouncement, or should we more
formally run this past python-dev?

-Brett