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Mon May 16 15:58:17 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-May/053810.html

On Mon, May 16, 2005, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2005, Greg Ewing wrote:
>>>
>>>Instead of an 'args' attribute, I'd suggest that the constructor take
>>>keyword arguments and store them in corresponding attributes.
>> 
>> Sounds reasonable, but it should be equally easy to handle::
>> 
>>     raise MyError, "message"
> 
> To be more explicit, the base exception class would
> look something like
> 
>    class Exception:
> 
>      def __init__(self, message = None, **kwds):
>        self.message = message
>        self.__dict__.update(kwds)
> 
>      def __str__(self):
>        if self.message is not None:
>          return self.message
>        else:
>          return self.__class__.__name__

That works.
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