Changed the condtion checking for setting status of HTTPresponce from
if( isinstance(status, types.ClassType) and issubclass(status, Exception))
to if( isinstance(status, (type, types.ClassType)) and issubclass(status, Exception))
for fixing the failures in the module Zope2

M    doc/CHANGES.txt
M    lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py

doc/CHANGES.txt

@@ -411,6 +411,11 @@ Zope Changes
 
       - Prevent ZPublisher from insering incorrect <base/> tags into the
         headers of plain html files served from Zope3 resource directories.
+      
+      - Changed the condtion checking for setting status of HTTPresponce from
+	if( isinstance(status, types.ClassType) and issubclass(status, Exception))
+	to if( isinstance(status, (type, types.ClassType)) and issubclass(status, Exception))
+	for fixing the failures in the module Zope2
 
     Other Changes
 

lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py

@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ class HTTPResponse(BaseResponse):
             # It has already been determined.
             return
 
-        if (isinstance(status, types.ClassType)
+        if (isinstance(status, (type, types.ClassType))
          and issubclass(status, Exception)):
             status = status.__name__