How do you find what exceptions a class can throw?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Dec 21 14:35:27 EST 2020
On 12/21/2020 4:06 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> Avi Gross <avigross at verizon.net> wrote:
>> The original question sounded like someone was asking what errors might be
>> thrown for a routine they wrote that used other components that might
>> directly throw exceptions or called yet others, ad nauseum.
>>
> OP here. The original question was because I wanted to trap timout
> errors when connectiing to a POP3 server in a very simple little
> program that collects mail and runs it through a filter before
> delivering it.
> Thus I simply needed to know what the 'name' of the exception was so I
> could trap only timeouts.
...
> It didn't seem such a difficult question when I asked it! :-)
Please acknowledge that this is *not* what you asked.
"I am using poplib.POP3_SSL() and I want to know what exceptions can be
thrown when I instantiate it. "
If you had just asked "What is the name of a possible timeout error"
someone would have answered just that.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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