Roy Smith: >In theory, all exceptions which represent problems with the external >environment (rather than programming mistakes) should derive from >Exception, but not from StandardError.
Are you sure? """ The class hierarchy for built-in exceptions is: Exception +-- StandardError | +-- KeyboardInterrupt | +-- ImportError | +-- EnvironmentError | | +-- IOError """ http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-exceptions.html -- René Pijlman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list