PEP 352 implementation. Creates a new base class, BaseException, which has an
added message attribute compared to the previous version of Exception. It is
also a new-style class, making all exceptions now new-style. KeyboardInterrupt
and SystemExit inherit from BaseException directly. String exceptions now
raise DeprecationWarning.
Applies patch 1104669, and closes bugs 1012952 and 518846.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 51e0aef..63c2874 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
Core and builtins
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+- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
+ new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
+ KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
+ Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
+
- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the