R: [Python-Dev] Deprecating string exceptions

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

[Guido van Rossum]
> 
> > (Does anybody else lament the lack of an inheritance diagram in the
> > exceptions module documentation?)
> 
> I do lament it!  It's a shame that the only useful diagram is hidden
> in a C source file.

>>> import exceptions
>>> print exceptions.__doc__[1109:]
Exception
 |
 +-- SystemExit
 +-- StopIteration
 +-- StandardError
 |    |
 |    +-- KeyboardInterrupt
 |    +-- ImportError
 |    +-- EnvironmentError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- IOError
 |    |    +-- OSError
 |    |         |
 |    |         +-- WindowsError
 |    |
 |    +-- EOFError
 |    +-- RuntimeError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- NotImplementedError
 |    |
 |    +-- NameError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- UnboundLocalError
 |    |
 |    +-- AttributeError
 |    +-- SyntaxError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- IndentationError
 |    |         |
 |    |         +-- TabError
 |    |
 |    +-- TypeError
 |    +-- AssertionError
 |    +-- LookupError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- IndexError
 |    |    +-- KeyError
 |    |
 |    +-- ArithmeticError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- OverflowError
 |    |    +-- ZeroDivisionError
 |    |    +-- FloatingPointError
 |    |
 |    +-- ValueError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- UnicodeError
 |    |
 |    +-- ReferenceError
 |    +-- SystemError
 |    +-- MemoryError
 |
 +---Warning
      |
      +-- UserWarning
      +-- DeprecationWarning
      +-- SyntaxWarning
      +-- OverflowWarning
      +-- RuntimeWarning

Time machine appears to be working.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech