From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:48:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Move the __getitem__() definition from StandardException to Exception.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5a4~78
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=596db3161c8cf0a492f5613cb5721b6c12c1dceb;p=python

Move the __getitem__() definition from StandardException to Exception.
This allows stuff like this out of the box:

	try:
	    ...
	except socket.error, (code, msg):
	    ...
---

diff --git a/Lib/exceptions.py b/Lib/exceptions.py
index 686ba38158..c7bbbf491e 100644
--- a/Lib/exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/exceptions.py
@@ -58,10 +58,12 @@ class Exception:
 	else:
 	    return str(self.args)
 
-class StandardError(Exception):
     def __getitem__(self, i):
 	return self.args[i]
 
+class StandardError(Exception):
+    pass
+
 class SyntaxError(StandardError):
     filename = lineno = offset = text = None
     msg = ""