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

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 23:58:33 CET 2007

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. 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 :-).

I'll update 2to3's fix_except accordingly. Is PEP 352 the only one that needs to be changed?

Collin Winter

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