On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> Yeah. Unfortunately this exception doesn't make good use of its args, >> so you can't get programmatic information from it (this is true in 3.7 >> too actually). So if a change were to be made, I'd recommend putting >> the actual string into e.args[1] or something, and then the message >> shouldn't need to be parsed. I'm not sure what the backward compat >> guarantees on exception messages are, though, so it is possible that >> this might be changed in 2.7. > > > Unless a message is erroneous (buggy), it is usually treated as an > enhancement.
That's what I thought. If the OP's happy to upgrade to 3.6/3.7, of course, the problem disappears. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
