6 Sep
2002
6 Sep
'02
5:13 p.m.
It would, however, be extremely useful if the documentation spelled out *which* exceptions can be raised! Kind of hard to write a decent try/except clause if you don't know what to expect.
Yes, *this* is a deficiency in the Python docs that ought to be fixed. It's a lot of work though, and it's not always clear what to document (e.g. *everything* can raise MemoryError -- so it's not useful to mention that everywhere).
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)