Barry A. Warsaw writes: > Of course the first 'foo' and the second 'foo' need not have such a > close lexical relationship. And can't interning (I think) be > disabled? (Though I'm sure no one does this.) Also, isn't interning > limited to just identifier-like strings: Yes, but in practice, the strings that were used for exceptions were simple in this way. I don't know whether there's a #define that controls the use of interning; I can't imaging that anyone would want to use it. > So, yes the simple example I gave will work, but the more general > concept, that string exceptions cannot guaranteed to be caught by > value, still holds. Agreed. But that's always been well-known, and probably even documented. ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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