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(I wish we could do this in email instead of cluttering up
an already-messy bug...)

Forget about throwing non-Exception-based objects: it's a
red herring.  The bug to focus on is the title: "exception
cannot be new-style class".

Bottom line:  This subclass of Exception can not be raised
in python 2.3:

class MyException (Exception, object): pass

pje's comment below from (2002-07-11 13:12) is a nice
summary of how to solve it.