> On 2 Feb 2021, at 20:24, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org
> <mailto:ba...@barrys-emacs.org>> wrote:
> When I write packages I aim to trap the exceptions from the lower levels
> and convert into a package specific exceptions or document that a low
> level exception can propagate.
> But how do you know what exceptions could be raised?
By reading the code of the modules I use.
Yes that is tedious and time consuming. I can understand why most users will
not want to d this.
> I love Python in a big way, but this is one thing Java has on Python -
> knowing what exceptions are relevant.
>
> Python's approach is great as long as an uncaught exception should cause
> termination of the program - and most of my programs fit into this category.
> But not all of them.
>
Barry
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