[Tutor] raising exceptions in constructor code?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 7/16/19 3:29 PM, James Hartley wrote:
> I ask this having more C++ knowledge than sense.
> 
> There is an adage in the halls of everything Stroustrup that one needs to
> think about how resource allocation will be unwound if an exception is
> thrown.  This gets watered down to the mantra "Don't throw exceptions from
> within constructors."  Does this carry over to Python?  I'm trying to
> develop a Pythonistic mindset as opposed to carrying over old baggage...

If you mean __init__, that's not a constructor, so you should set your
mind at rest :)   It's more properly an "initializer", the instance has
already been constructed when it's called.