Comment 1 for bug 822813

This work got abandoned, which is really too bad. I doubt a patch would apply cleanly now, and I do have some concerns about replacing "Exception" with "QuantumException" (since this could change behavior), but I would like to look into keeping a lot of these changes. Perhaps I will get a beer and copy/paste these changes at some point :)

I think we will want to do a pylint/code coverage push early E-4 in prep for our proposal as a "core" project for "F".