[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
Thu Mar 22 00:10:40 CET 2007

On 3/21/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On 3/21/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 fixexcept accordingly.

So I guess you are just going to notice when exceptions are caught and if exc.message is found change it to exc.args[0]? Could you use this for the removal of indexing/slicing so that exc[0] becomes exc.args[0]?

No, I'm basically just backing out a transformation that used .message instead of .args. It would be possible to remove slicing/indexing like you suggest, but only when exc is mentioned explicitly; that is, "x = exc; x[0];" would defeat it.

Collin Winter

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