Re: About some problem

From	André Malo <ndparker@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: About some problem
Date	2014-01-03 21:28 +0100
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* Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> raise "Not Valid DB Type"
>> 
>> is perfectly valid in Python 2.
> 
> Actually, no it isn't. It's only valid up to Python 2.4. In Python 2.5,
> string exceptions display a warning but continue to work, and in Python
> 2.6 they generate a compile-time SyntaxError.

Oh? Doesn't look like it.

$ cat x.py
try:
    raise "foo"
except:
    print "bar"

$ python2.7 x.py
bar
$ python2.6 x.py
bar

A lone '''raise "foo"''' raises a TypeError, though.

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Re: About some problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-02 19:27 +0000
  Re: About some problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-03 10:49 +1100
    Re: About some problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 01:14 +0000
    Re: About some problem Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-02 20:18 -0800
    Re: About some problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 04:46 +0000
    Re: About some problem André Malo <ndparker@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 21:28 +0100
      Re: About some problem Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-04 07:55 +1100
        Re: About some problem Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-03 13:17 -0800

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