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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:14:19 -0500

Barry A. Warsaw writes:

Of course the first 'foo' and the second 'foo' need not have such a close lexical relationship. And can't interning (I think) be disabled? (Though I'm sure no one does this.) Also, isn't interning limited to just identifier-like strings:

Yes, but in practice, the strings that were used for exceptions were simple in this way. I don't know whether there's a #define that controls the use of interning; I can't imaging that anyone would want to use it.

So, yes the simple example I gave will work, but the more general concept, that string exceptions cannot guaranteed to be caught by value, still holds.

Agreed. But that's always been well-known, and probably even documented. ;-)

-Fred

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