PDFL? Petty Dictator For Life? Poodle Dictator For Life? Perhaps Dictator For Life? :-)
I suggest that you update the PEP and then repost the pep on python-dev with a summary of the changes (to the PEP). I expect it to go smoothly. --Guido On 3/21/07, Brett Cannon <[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. > > I just posted on my blog about this. I am curious to see what the > general public think, but I suspect it will stay as well. I was > cranky at the sprint because of my 'args' removal. Don't need to make > more people cranky. > > > 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 :-). > > Should we just consider this a PDFL pronouncement, or should we more > formally run this past python-dev? > > -Brett > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
