Terry Reedy wrote: > I would agree... but... > The problem is that code that uses a function hardly cares whether an > exception that replaces the normal return is raised explicitly, by a > syntax operation (and these are not yet completely documented, though > perhaps they should be), or by a function called within the function.
I often read that argument that info on thrown exceptions does not matter in Python, but I beg to differ. Just as a simple and well-known example, it is absolutely important to know that the str.index() method throws a ValueError if nothing is found, while the str.find() method should never throw a ValueError.
-- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
