raise None

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "spam", line 19, in this
>   File "spam", line 29, in that
>   File "spam", line 39, in other
>   File "spam", line 5, in _validate
> ThingyError: ...
>
> and the reader has to understand the internal workings of _validate
> sufficiently to infer that this exception is not a bug in _validate
> but an expected failure mode of other when you pass a bad argument.

This point seems to advocate for suppressing *any* code that
deliberately raises an exception. Is that your intent?

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Ben Finney