New submission from Christoph Zwerschke <c...@online.de>: The Python 2.6.2 tutorial says at the end of secton 8.3 (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html#handling-exceptions):
"But use of .args is discouraged. Instead, the preferred use is to pass a single argument to an exception (which can be a tuple if multiple arguments are needed) and have it bound to the message attribute." It seems this is not true any more, the idea has been retracted so that it's now the other way around again: .args can still be used, but .message is deprecated (see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep- 0352/#retracted-ideas). The examples classes in section 8.5 of the Tutorial, using the .message attribute should be also adapted because they raise a DeprecationWarning in Python 2.6.2. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 91937 nosy: cito, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: Python 2.6 tutorial still recommends using Exception.message attribute versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6777> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
