[Zope-dev] ConflictError shouldn't subclass Exception

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Withers wrote at 2005-11-24 19:34 +0000:
> ...
>and I firmly agree with, that zodb 
>conflicts should _not_ sublcass exception.

-1

>That way, there's less chance 
>of them being caught by inexperienced programmers putting in try: except 
>Exception: 's.

Most people that use an unrestricted "try ... except ..."
use "try: ... except: ..." and not "try: ... except Exception: ...",
thus your proposal will not help much...

>How would we go about making this change?

Do not do it at all.



-- 
Dieter