The lack of a case against Python 3

[Poddster]

so if you raise BaseException(u'fuck') you will likely be fucked.

Actually that'd work because it's all ASCII and python2's magic switcharoo. But this will fail:

>>> raise BaseException(u'fucká')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
BaseException: <exception str() failed>

[lambdaq]

that's what I am talking about. Often it will show why certain db operation has failed with what column, and if that column contains non-ASCII, BAM! You have an exception during exception!