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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:08:14 -0500

Is there any controversy that string exceptions should, eventually, be deprecated? If not, then let's come up with a road map for deprecating them, even if their use doesn't raise a deprecation warning in Python 2.3.

Good point. I do want to start deprecating them, but slowly because they're used so much. Maybe you can draft a brief PEP?

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