What Exceptions are there? (was: "a better input")

[Duncan Booth]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in 
news:hQQC8.10635$Po6.194 at rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net:

> Louis M. Pecora
>> Ok, you knew there was an exception of that type (ValueError), but is
>> there a way to get a list of exceptions in a Python module or in the
>> main Python core?  There are probably zillions. 
> 
>  dir(__builtins__) gives you a good start.
> 
If you have a sufficiently recent version of Python:

Go to your python installation, change into the lib directory and run:
    pydoc -g
You should get a small window popping up with some buttons and a text box 
labelled 'Search for'. Type 'exceptions' into the box, press return and 
click on the second entry 'exceptions - Python's standard exception class 
hierarchy'.
This should open your browser with an HTML page describing exceptions and 
giving (amongst other things) a class hierarchy:

Exception
 |
 +-- SystemExit
 +-- StopIteration
 +-- StandardError
 |    |
 |    +-- KeyboardInterrupt
 |    +-- ImportError
 |    +-- EnvironmentError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- IOError
 |    |    +-- OSError
 |    |         |
 |    |         +-- WindowsError
 |    |
 |    +-- EOFError
 |    +-- RuntimeError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- NotImplementedError
 |    |
 |    +-- NameError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- UnboundLocalError
 |    |
 |    +-- AttributeError
 |    +-- SyntaxError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- IndentationError
 |    |         |
 |    |         +-- TabError
 |    |
 |    +-- TypeError
 |    +-- AssertionError
 |    +-- LookupError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- IndexError
 |    |    +-- KeyError
 |    |
 |    +-- ArithmeticError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- OverflowError
 |    |    +-- ZeroDivisionError
 |    |    +-- FloatingPointError
 |    |
 |    +-- ValueError
 |    |    |
 |    |    +-- UnicodeError
 |    |
 |    +-- ReferenceError
 |    +-- SystemError
 |    +-- MemoryError
 |
 +---Warning
      |
      +-- UserWarning
      +-- DeprecationWarning
      +-- SyntaxWarning
      +-- OverflowWarning
      +-- RuntimeWarning

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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