Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "spam", line 19, in this > File "spam", line 29, in that > File "spam", line 39, in other > File "spam", line 5, in _validate > ThingyError: ... > > and the reader has to understand the internal workings of _validate > sufficiently to infer that this exception is not a bug in _validate > but an expected failure mode of other when you pass a bad argument.
This point seems to advocate for suppressing *any* code that deliberately raises an exception. Is that your intent? -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with difficult realities, and | `\ I see no virtue in savoring excuses for avoiding a search for | _o__) real answers.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2009-09-12 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
