exceptions from modules

[Erik Max Francis]

"Matthew D. Wood" wrote:

> However, I have seen PLENTY of examples of modules that seemingly defy
> scoping rules in the way they present their exceptions to the world.
> And instead you can write:
> 
> except my_exception, value :
> 
> How do they do that?  Where is the exception defined?

Do you have an example?  Probably the user of the module was using the
from module import * trick, even if it wasn't immediately obvious.

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