[Python-Dev] New-style exceptions

[Tim Peters]

[Michael Hudson]
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> Well, it turns out to be a bit big for attaching, so it's here:
> 
> http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/new-style-exceptions-hacking.diff
> 
> This is very much a first cut; no attempt at subtlety.  The procedure
> went roughly "Hack until it compiles, hack until it doesn't dump core
> immediately, hack until most tests pass."
> 
> The good news: all tests but test_pickletools pass (and that's doomed;
> just look at it).

Eh?  test_pickletools is a three-line test, which just runs the
doctests in pickletools.py.  The only exceptions mentioned in the
latter are the builtin ValueError and OverflowError.  What's the
problem?