[Python-Dev] Tidier Exceptions

[Greg Ewing]

Brett C. wrote:

> Seems like, especially if we require inheritance from a base exception class in
> Python 3000, exceptions should have standard 'arg' and 'traceback' attributes
> with a possible 'context' attribute (or always a 'context' attribute set to
> None if not a chained exception).

Instead of an 'args' attribute, I'd suggest that
the constructor take keyword arguments and store
them in corresponding attributes. Then interested
parties could retrieve them by name instead of
having to remember their positions in the args
tuple of the exception class concerned.

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