[Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sat Jan 21 03:36:32 CET 2012


2012/1/20 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

It should derive from BaseException. RuntimeError meets that requirement, and it is an existing exception so there are no issues with introducing a new built-in exception to a point release. py> issubclass(RuntimeError, BaseException) True

Guido meant a direct subclass.

-- Regards, Benjamin



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