Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Wittber > wrote: > >> I'd also like to remove any deprecated or stuff which is left in for >> backwards functionality (eg Classic classes). > > Classic classes are still needed for exceptions: > >>>> class E(object): > ... pass > ... >>>> raise E > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: exceptions must be classes, instances, or strings (deprecated), > not type
The error is a bit misleading, since in Python 2.5 all exceptions are new-style, but new exception classes must be derived from an existing one. Classic classes, their instances and strings are only allowed for backwards compatibility. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
