[Zope-dev] urgent: string exceptions

[Chris McDonough]

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:04, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Why is there code writing
> 
>   raise 'Bad Request'
> 
> That code should be fixed!  It ought to use a class exception; if
> that's not possible, it ought to at least give the string a global
> name, like so:
> 
> BadRequest = 'Bad Request'

Most of the code using it was written before class exceptions existed,
and I don't think anybody who raised or used the exception understood
that it couldn't be caught by value at the time.  Many people have
threatened to fix it, but no one has done so yet.

- C