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Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6



On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 10:43:27PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> As was recently discussed on debian-python:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/05/msg00111.html
> 
> String exceptions are no longer supported at all in Python 2.6.  Since this is 
> the Python version planned to be the default in Squeeze, packages still using 
> them should be fixed.  String exceptions have never worked reliably or been a 
> good idea.  It is time for them to go.
> 
> A couple of weeks ago, Jakub Wilk noticed this issue and prepared both a DD 
> list of affected packages and the grep output that was used to detect 
> potentially affected packages.  I know some of these packages have been fixed 
> already.  Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false 
> positives.
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/tmp/string-exceptions.ddlist
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/tmp/string-exceptions.log

I will have a look at the ldaptor string exceptions (most of them are raise
"TODO" and may be better expressed with NotImplementedError).


Regards
Jan

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