[Python-Dev] Deprecating string exceptions (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:35:18 -0500

"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

GvR> There was some discussion that concluded that it was a useful
GvR> feature (e.g. because the Exception class defines a standard
GvR> signature and some standard attributes)

But most of the (early) built-in exception interfaces were chosen for backwards compatibility with the old string-based standard exceptions, so I'm not sure how useful they are as a specification. E.g. Exception.init() essentially takes a *args and assigns the tuple to exc.args, and that's about it. Maybe in a perfect world that's still a useful signature, I don't know.

-Barry