[Python-Dev] Go \x yourself (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:15:08 +0200

Greg Ewing wrote:

BDFL: > No, problems with literal interpretations traditionally raise > "runtime" exceptions rather than syntax errors. E.g. What about using an exception that's a subclass of both ValueError and SyntaxError?

What would this buy you ?

Note that the contents of a literal string don't really have anything to do with syntax. The \x escape sequences are details of the codecs used for converting those literal strings to Python string objects.

Perhaps we need a CodecError which is subclass of ValueError and then make the UnicodeError a subclass of this CodecError ?!

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