Paul McGuire wrote: > "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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 >> >> Ciao, >> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch > > I thought exceptions were converted to new-style classes for Py2.5 > (http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/pep-352.html).
Yes, they were. Still, you can't raise instance of arbitrary new-style classes as exceptions, and you will never be able to. In Py3k, only instances of "BaseException" subclasses will be raisable. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
