Bug#732841: cicero: TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Package: cicero
Version: 0.7.2-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

Giving cicero et al a try I can't get it to run, but the following error 
message tells me it has probably not been tested under python 2.7:

$ /usr/share/cicero/tts_shell.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/cicero/tts_shell.py", line 20, in <module>
    s = main.SpeechServ(app_shell.AppFeed)
  File "/usr/share/cicero/main.py", line 38, in __init__
    self.sndoutput = sndoutput.SndOutput(self.samplingRate)
  File "/usr/share/cicero/sndoutput.py", line 58, in __init__
    self._open()
  File "/usr/share/cicero/sndoutput.py", line 133, in _open
    raise 'Sound device is busy'
TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from 
BaseException, not str

-- System Information:
Versions of packages cicero depends on:
ii  mbrola-fr4  0.0.19990521-2
ii  oss-compat  0.0.4+nmu3
ii  python      2.7.2-9
ii  sox         14.4.1-3

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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