[Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Jan 21 03:37:25 CET 2012
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
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
Sorry, I was ambiguous. I meant it should not derive from Exception. It goes RuntimeError -> StandardError -> Exception -> BaseException.
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