Proper way to handle errors in a module

[Corey Richardson]

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On 05/12/2011 04:12 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2011.05.12 02:25 PM, MRAB wrote:
>> You can raise an exception wherever you like! :-)
> If I raise an exception that isn't a built-in exception, I get something
> like "NameError: name 'HelloError' is not defined". I don't know how to
> define the exception.

class HelloError(Exception):
    pass

Of course, there are all sorts of other things you could do with your
exception.

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html#user-defined-exceptions
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Corey Richardson
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