On 3/21/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 3/21/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 3/21/07, brett.cannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > When removing indexing/slicing on exceptions some places were changed
> > > > inappropriately from ``e[0]`` to ``e.message`` instead of 
> > > > ``e.args[0]``.  The
> > > > reason it needs to be the last option is the dichotomy of 'message' and 
> > > > 'args':
> > > > 'message' can be the empty string but args[0] can have a value if more 
> > > > than one
> > > > argument was passed.
> > >
> > > So e.args is going to stick around in 3.0?
> >
> > I think so. e.message OTOH I think we can kill (perhaps deprecate it
> > in 2.6; it was added in 2.5, this may be a record :-).
>
> I'll update 2to3's fix_except accordingly.

So I guess you are just going to notice when exceptions are caught and
if exc.message is found change it to exc.args[0]?  Could you use this
for the removal of indexing/slicing so that exc[0] becomes
exc.args[0]?

> Is PEP 352 the only one
> that needs to be changed?

Yep, that would be the only place.

-Brett
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