String exceptions not supported in Python >= 2.6

[joss@…]

Hi, nicotine+ uses string exceptions which have been deprecated for some time and no longer work with python 2.6:

$ python2.6 -c "raise 'eggs'" Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

TypeError?: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException?, not str

The affected code is in pynicotine/config.py, lines 750 and 754:

749	                        if os.path.exists(filename):
750	                                raise "File %s exists" % filename
751	                        import tarfile
752	                        tar = tarfile.open(filename, "w:bz2")
753	                        if not os.path.exists(self.filename):
754	                                raise "Config file missing"

[quinox]

thanks for the report! fixed with r1416