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

[Louis M. Pecora]

In article <abe9us$kn5$1 at slb6.atl.mindspring.net>, Andrew Dalke
<dalke at dalkescientific.com> wrote:

> > def isThisAComplexLiteral(this):
> >     try: complex(this)
> >     except: return False
> >     else: return True
> 
> Minor point.  "except ValueError:" instead of "except:" as in

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.  No?  How does one know
what exceptions exist, i.e. what the programmer was thinking at the
time?

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-- Lou Pecora

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