[Zope-dev] string exceptions

[Laurence Rowe]

On 25 February 2011 11:03, Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 February 2011 10:58, Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha at bubblenet.be> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I find a few string exceptions leftover in Zope 2.13 code.
>>
>> However, they are not allowed anymore in Python 2.6.
>>
>> I guess that the remaining string exceptions are in dead/semidead code.
>>
>> What practice has been followed until now regarding fixing those
>> exceptions ?
>
> According to this doc,
> http://docs.python.org/c-api/exceptions.html#deprecation-of-string-exceptions
>
> "String exceptions are still supported in the interpreter to allow
> existing code to run unmodified, but this will also change in a future
> release."
>
> It will of course be important to fix these before we move to Python
> 3.x, but I would expect that the dead/semidead code will not be
> ported.

I take that back, that documentation is incorrect, they have indeed
stopped working.

Laurence