Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'string': 0.09; 'broke': 0.09; 'compile-time': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '~ethan~': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'backwards': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'folks': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'split': 0.19; 'work,': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'subject:problem': 0.24; 'certain': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'raise': 0.29; 'wonder': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; '>>>>': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'exceptions': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'subject:About': 0.31; 'subject:some': 0.31; "we're": 0.32; 'community': 0.33; 'noticed': 0.34; 'display': 0.35; 'anybody': 0.35; 'no,': 0.35; 'one,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; '2.6': 0.36; 'wrong': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'itself': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'simply': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'world': 0.66; 'nobody': 0.68; '100%': 0.77; '"not': 0.84; 'actually,': 0.84; 'ethan': 0.84; 'furman': 0.84; 'universe': 0.84; 'severe': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: About some problem Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:46:06 +0000 References: <52c5fb00$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52C63A2B.6070704@stoneleaf.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-28-22.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <52C63A2B.6070704@stoneleaf.us> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1388724353 news.xs4all.nl 2851 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54285 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63035 On 03/01/2014 04:18, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 01/02/2014 05:14 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 02/01/2014 23:49, 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. >>> >> >> Thaanks for the correction. >> >>> You know how the world ended when Python 2.6 broke backwards >>> compatibility >>> and split the Python community into two? No, me neither. >>> >> >> I'm 100% certain that you're wrong on this one, the split was simply >> never noticed by anybody :) > > Actually, the split was so severe the universe itself noticed and split > into two -- one where folks noticed, and one where nobody did... I > wonder which one we're in? > > -- > ~Ethan~ > The one where Breamore's at the centre. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence