[Python-Dev] PEP 409 update [was: PEP 409 - final?]

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion using Ellipsis is just wrong.  It is completely
> non-obvious not only to a beginner, but even to an experienced
> python developer.  Writing 'raise Something() from None'
> looks less suspicious, but still strange.

Beginners will never even see it (unless they're printing out
__cause__ explicitly for some unknown reason). Experienced devs can go
read language reference or PEP 409 for the rationale (that's one of
the reasons we have a PEP process).

Cheers,
Nick.

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