* Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> raise "Not Valid DB Type"
>>
>> is perfectly valid in Python 2.
>
> Actually, no it isn't. It's only valid up to Python 2.4. In Python 2.5,
> string exceptions display a warning but continue to work, and in Python
> 2.6 they generate a compile-time SyntaxError.
Oh? Doesn't look like it.
$ cat x.py
try:
raise "foo"
except:
print "bar"
$ python2.7 x.py
bar
$ python2.6 x.py
bar
A lone '''raise "foo"''' raises a TypeError, though.
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