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Re: About some problem

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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~

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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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