[Twisted-Python] twisted.web.error.Error & BaseException.message deprecation
Glyph Lefkowitz
glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Thu Mar 10 22:12:59 MST 2011
On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Been seeing this error for a long time and finally getting off my bum
> to see about fixing it:
>
> twisted/web/error.py:53: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has
> been deprecated as of Python 2.6
>
> It looks like the issue is the "self.message = message" assignment in
> __init__: https://gist.github.com/865097
>
> Before I go about getting rid of the warning, does anyone have a
> reason Error.message should stick around?
This is the attribute used (in some cases) to relay the protocol-level error message printed in the status line area of the HTTP response. So yes, we need to keep it; it doesn't mean the same thing as Python's earlier 'message' attribute on Exception. If we can simply squash the warning that would be best.
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