Convert some old-style string exceptions to class exceptions.

Lib/aifc.py

@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ writeframesraw.
 import struct
 import __builtin__
 
-Error = 'aifc.Error'
+class Error(Exception):
+    pass
 
 _AIFC_version = 0xA2805140      # Version 1 of AIFF-C
 

Lib/audiodev.py

 """Classes for manipulating audio devices (currently only for Sun and SGI)"""
 
-error = 'audiodev.error'
+class error(Exception):
+	pass
 
 class Play_Audio_sgi:
 	# Private instance variables

Lib/binhex.py

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ import struct
 import string
 import binascii
     
-Error = 'binhex.Error'
+class Error(Exception):
+    pass
 
 # States (what have we written)
 [_DID_HEADER, _DID_DATA, _DID_RSRC] = range(3)

Lib/copy.py

@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ __getstate__() and __setstate__().  See the documentation for module
 
 import types
 
-error = 'copy.error'
-Error = error # backward compatibility
+class Error(Exception):
+	pass
+error = Error	# backward compatibility
 
 def copy(x):
 	"""Shallow copy operation on arbitrary Python objects.

Lib/ftplib.py

@@ -56,16 +56,16 @@ FTP_PORT = 21
 
 
 # Exception raised when an error or invalid response is received
-error_reply = 'ftplib.error_reply'	# unexpected [123]xx reply
-error_temp = 'ftplib.error_temp'	# 4xx errors
-error_perm = 'ftplib.error_perm'	# 5xx errors
-error_proto = 'ftplib.error_proto'	# response does not begin with [1-5]
+class Error(Exception): pass
+class error_reply(Error): pass		# unexpected [123]xx reply
+class error_temp(Error): pass		# 4xx errors
+class error_perm(Error): pass		# 5xx errors
+class error_proto(Error): pass		# response does not begin with [1-5]
 
 
 # All exceptions (hopefully) that may be raised here and that aren't
 # (always) programming errors on our side
-all_errors = (error_reply, error_temp, error_perm, error_proto, \
-	      socket.error, IOError, EOFError)
+all_errors = (Error, socket.error, IOError, EOFError)
 
 
 # Line terminators (we always output CRLF, but accept any of CRLF, CR, LF)

Lib/multifile.py

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ seekable stream object.
 import sys
 import string
 
-Error = 'multifile.Error'
+class Error(Exception):
+	pass
 
 class MultiFile: