Exceptional inheritance patterns (was Re: [Python-Dev] Python in Unicode context) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 6 02:39:43 CEST 2004

My point is that I like to regard try/except as a mechanism for "out-of-band" objects. Guidos "should be shot" seems to indicate he sees try/except only useful/applicable to exception-handling.

If the root exception class were called something else, such as 'Raisable', would that make you feel better?

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