Tom Anderson wrote:
>> class NeverRaised(Exception):
>> def __init__(self, *args):
>> raise RuntimeError('NeverRaised should never be raised')
>
> Briliant! Although i'd be tempted to define an
> UnraisableExceptionError to signal what's happened. Or ...
>
> class ImpossibleException(Exception):
> def __init__(self, *args):
> raise ImpossibleException, args
>
> Although crashing the interpreter is probably overkill.
Crashng the interpreter would be, but what you just wrote is simply a more
obscure way of raising RuntimeError :-)
>>> class ImpossibleException(Exception):
... def __init__(self, *args):
... raise ImpossibleException, args
...
>>> raise ImpossibleException
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 3, in __init__
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
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