On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:41:48 +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > >> I'd like to suggest adding a builtin abstract class to Python called >> AsynchronousException, which would be a subclass of Exception. The >> only asynchronous exception I can think of right now is >> KeyboardInterrupt, so KeyboardInterrupt would become a subclass of >> AsynchronousException instead of being a direct subclass of Exception. > > PEP 348 addresses this by moving special exceptions out of the > Exception hierarchy: > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0348.html
The PEP has been summarily rejected, perhaps because it was too broad in the changes it suggested. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list