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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:00:50 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 08/26/2013 12:37 PM, Marco Buttu wrote:
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> Since StopIteration is not an error, how come does it inherit directly from Exception and not from BaseException?

Not all exceptions are errors. (Although not dealing with one can be. ;)

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