[Python-Dev] 2.5 status (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Sep 5 20:49:01 CEST 2006

Brett Cannon wrote:

On 9/4/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com_ _<mailto:nnorwitz at gmail.com>> wrote: There are 3 bugs currently listed in PEP 356 as blocking: http://python.org/sf/1551432 - unicode breaks on exception classes I replied on the bug report, but might as well comment here. The problem with this bug is that BaseException now defines a unicode() method in its PyMethodDef. That intercepts the unicode() call on the class and it complains it was not handed an instance. I guess the only way to fix this is to toss out the unicode() method and change the tpstr function to return Unicode as needed (unless someone else has a better idea). Or the bug can be closed as Won't Fix.

Throwing out the unicode method is fine with me -- exceptions didn't have one before the NeedForSpeed rewrite, so there would be no loss in functionality.

Georg

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