Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003, Steven Taschuk wrote:
>> Quoth Brett C.:
>>>
>>> I am +1 on deprecating string exceptions for Python 3.
>>
>> PEP 317 actually proposes formally deprecating them in 2.4, and
>> eliminating them entirely in 3.0. Are you +1 on that?
>
> Given how deeply embedded string exceptions are in Python,
How deep is that? 'python -X' went away, causing no pain at all as
far as I could tell.
> I believe that we cannot afford to issue a DeprecationWarning until
> we start doing the same for integer division.
$ python -E -Wall
Python 2.3b1+ (#1, May 6 2003, 18:00:11)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-112.7.2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> raise "hello"
__main__:1: PendingDeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
hello
We don't seem to do that for integer division yet.
Cheers,
M.
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