[Python-Dev] GeneratorExit inheriting from Exception (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 21 02:58:50 CET 2006

Barry Warsaw wrote:

Ideally, StandardError would be called Error ... Their non-error exceptions would be derived from Exception.

Having something called StandardError suggests that there are "non-standard errors" around somewhere. Are we to have Error Police going around making sure everyone's errors are standardised? :=)

Also, "standard error" sounds like some sort of statistical term to me...

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