Peter Hansen wrote:I can't actually think of a reason to need to base an exception on a new-style class, but perhaps you have a good one...
It's quite simple to bypass the problem, it was more the reason I was wondering about too.
Basically because fixing it without killing backward compatibility with string exceptions is hard :)
Doesn't mean people aren't trying though (Google the python-dev archives, as well as the python-list ones).
Cheers, Nick.
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