[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Products/DCOracle2/DCOracle2 - DCOracle2.py:1.97

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Matthew T. Kromer writes:
 > +# For the next() idiom which is Python 2.2, there is no StopIteration in
 > +# earlier pythons
 > +if split(sys.version)[0]  < '2.2.0':
 > +    StopIteration = IndexError

A better way to do this would be to use a feature test instead of a
version test.  There's also no need to associate StopIteration with
IndexError, so they can be kept separate:

try:
    StopIteration
except NameError:
    class StopIteration(Exception):
        pass


  -Fred

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