Matthias Bussonnier added the comment: > Another point is that it may be better to keep the existing parameter name > “value”, rather than (eventually?) replacing it with “exc”. I think both of > these things could be accomplished by juggling the “value” and “etype” > parameters:
I agreed, and that what I would have done outside of CPython, but that felt like this kind of juggling was frowned upon. > The disadvantage of any of these changes is that we may want to maintain > support for the old signature while Python 2 remains alive. Your example does not seem to break the old signature. Or I fail to see how. If that way would be accepted I'm happy to implement it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26389> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
