Gregory Petrosyan wrote: > 1) From 2.4.2 documentation: > There are two new valid (semantic) forms for the raise statement: > raise Class, instance > raise instance
Check `PEP 8`_ -- the latter form is preferred: """ When raising an exception, use "raise ValueError('message')" instead of the older form "raise ValueError, 'message'". """ .. _PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list