[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Dec 10 10:53:07 CET 2005

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

Let's say something like "string-based exceptions are strongly discouraged, and in fact may be deprecated or disappear in a future Python version. Use class-based exceptions."

If I have anything to do with it, they will be deprecated in 2.5. There is simply no excuse for writing new code using string exceptions.

Cheers, mwh (PS: are people still interested in my new-style exceptions patch? http://bugs.python.org/1104669)

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