On 3/21/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PDFL? Petty Dictator For Life? Poodle Dictator For Life? Perhaps
> Dictator For Life? :-)
>

=)  Hey, I'm sick so I get to have a typo or four.

> 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.
>

Will do.

-Brett




> --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/)
>
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