Hi
Sorry for such a naive question.
I couldnt find anywhere in the documentation that int() can throw a ValueError.
I checked the "The Python Language Reference", and the "The Python
Standard Library " to no avail.
Did I missed something?
So here is the question - if it is not in the documentation - how does
one find out the
exceptions that are thrown by a constructor, a method or a function?
Example: int("not_an_int")
>>> int("not_an_int")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'not_an_int'
>From what I gathered:
class int(object):
""" int(x[, base]) -> integer
Convert a string or number to an integer, if possible. A floating point
argument will be truncated towards zero (this does not include a string
representation of a floating point number!) When converting a string, use
the optional base. It is an error to supply a base when converting a
non-string. If base is zero, the proper base is guessed based on the
string content. If the argument is outside the integer range a
long object will be returned instead. """
Thanks for your help - and sorry again for such a naive question.
John T.
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