[Skip Montanaro] > I assigned bug 411881 to myself today and started looking through > things to at least try to whittle down the number of cases that > need to be considered. Almost immediately I came across this code in > anydbm.py: > > try: > class error(Exception): > pass > except (NameError, TypeError): > error = "anydbm.error" > > Is this sort of construct really necessary? It doesn't seem that > any other exception definitions in the standard library fall back to > string exceptions. No, we've previously agreed that the Python library need not work with any version of Python except the one it's released with. There are developers with a special interest in keeping a few specific libraries version-neutral, but it's up to them to keep them that way. You should feel free to get rid of stuff like the above whenever you like.
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