[Python-Dev] Python in Unicode context (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 3 22:14:58 CEST 2004

P.S. - Command line switch for command line switch :-), a switch for fully turning on the newer type system would be more productive than `-U', and put some pressure for refreshening the library in this area. Just curious, as I do not intend to volunteer in this area, is there something else than Exception in the Python internals that rely on old-style classes?

Probably not, but making Exception a new-style class won't be easy.

(It will also break code that creates a class used as an exception that doesn't derive from Exception, but those should be shot. :-)

Until Exception is a new-style class, such a switch wouldn't really work.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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