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[Python-Dev] Use Python 3.0 syntax for except and raise?

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sun Feb 17 19:17:19 CET 2008 
Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Good evening everybody!
> 
> I like to run the 2to3 tool with raise and except fixers over the 2.6
> sources. The raise fixer changes "raise Exception, msg" to "raise
> Exception(msg)" and the except fixer replaces "except Exception, err" by
> "except Exception as err". In my humble opinion the Python stdlib should
> give proper examples how write good code.
> 
> During the migration period from the 2.x series to 3.x we have two
> obvious ways to write code. Let's stick to the new and preferred way.
> 
> Oh and please use the new syntax for patches, too. It makes my job with
> svnmerge a little bit easier.

You'd have to exempt modules mentioned in PEP 291 though.

Georg

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