On 11-3-2012 20:04, bvdp wrote: > Which is preferred in a raise: X or X()? I've seen both. In my specific case > I'm dumping out of a deep loop: > > try: > for ... > for ... > for ... > if match: > raise StopInteration() > else ... > > except StopInteration: > print "found it"
"raise X" is a special case of the 3-args raise. Effectively it just raises an instance of X which is constructed with an empty argument list. Therefore, "raise X()" is equivalent, as far as I know. See http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-raise-statement Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
