On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:16:35AM -0800, Quinn Dunkan wrote:
>I propose that errors.AccessError.__init__ be changed to the following:
>
>    def __init__ (self, msg=''):
>        self.msg = msg or "Access denied"
>
>When you have 'msg=None', and you do 'raise AccessError', you wind up with
>an exception whose __str__ returns None and crashes when you try to print it.

Huh? How are you seeing crashes with the current code (which has
msg=None instead of "")?  None evaluates to false, so the constructor
should set self.msg to "Access denied".  Can you please provide an
example that manifests the bug?

--amk