[Twisted-Python] Exception's Implicit Public API, and Python 3

[Amber "Hawkie" Brown]

We just ran into an issue in Autobahn|Python where a log message that tried to use the message attribute an Exception subclass (twisted.internet.error.ProcessTerminated). The message attribute was deprecated in Python 2.6, and removed in Python 3 -- but it still "works" in Python 2.7.

So, this needs the question: Is this breaking Twisted's backwards compat (that .message isn't there on Python 3)? Should we go through and look at our exception subclasses, and look at what makes sense to have a .message attribute (for example, I'd say it makes sense on ProcessTerminated) and then add it? Or is it just a 2/3 change that should be expected during porting? It seems like an interesting edge case (and another example of "Don't use subclassing, kids" ;) ).

The Autobahn ticket (which we're fixing as I write this email) is here https://github.com/tavendo/AutobahnPython/issues/479 .

Regards,

Amber "Hawkie" Brown
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hawkowl at atleastfornow.net


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