When raising an exception with a value for instance an integer you assume that when catching the exception the value can be compared with other integers. That is not what happens.
try: raise Exception, 12 except Exception, number: print number == 12 # False
This is because the number variable is a exception instance and not an integer.
I wonder if I'm the only one which find this behavior odd, and if anyone knows if there is a way to retrieve the original initialization value of the exception.
I found out that it's possible to retrive the values the exception was initialized with through exception.args which is a tuple.
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