Reorder exceptions + add 2 new ones

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This 2 patches add 2 new exeptions (ImportError and AttributeError), so some more programs can be compiled... Furthermore, while typing them in, I notice that currently e.g. EOFException is declared twice in lib/builtin.py With reordered according to alphabeth, that would not happened… (-> Second patch) What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? trunk

thanks for cleaning up! I committed everything, except for the addition of
AttributeError and ImportError. the reasoning is similar to the comment I gave 
on
your import patch: we can support these partially, but never completely (as in
Python), so it seems better not to support them at all. an example:

try:
    import psyco
    psyco.full()
except ImportError:
    pass

we could check for the ImportError at compile-time, but what if it says 'except
Exception'? this typically leads to a series of hacks, after which the feature 
is
dropped in the end.. :)

similarly, in C++ an AttributeError just cannot occur, so it can never be 
supported
fully..

Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2009 at 3:26

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Reorder exceptions + add 2 new ones #38