[Zope-dev] string exceptions

[Lennart Regebro]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:05, Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk> wrote:
> I take that back, that documentation is incorrect, they have indeed
> stopped working.

You are allowed to catch them, but not raise them. This is so you can
have code that runs on old Pythons with old libraries still.

But in any case I think we safely can move them to ordinary exceptions.