[Python-Dev] Python in Unicode context

[Greg Ewing]

> Maybe we can accept old-style classes and instances, strings, and
> instances of Exception and its subclasses.

Seems to me the point at which we start allowing new-style classes as
exceptions should also be the point at which we drop the idea of
string exceptions. Would that help?

> I don't really think that "raise 42"
> ought to be acceptable, but I don't know how to prevent it

Maybe we need to think more deeply about *why* it shouldn't be
acceptable. If we can figure out exactly what the criterion should be,
maybe we can think of a reasonable way of testing for it.

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