How do I know all thrown exceptions of a function?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:02:36AM +0100, Syver Enstad wrote:
>Couldn't you use the source?

Yeah, I suppose so.  I don't think you should *HAVE* to review the code of
the libraries you call, AND *EVERYTHING* that *THEY* call.  It's not an
effective use of my time...  I usually just end up leaving it and track
down what exceptions get thrown later.  Luckily, Python exceptions are
(almost) user-readable.

Exceptions is something that I think Java does right...  When you write
a method, you have to either trap all exceptions which can be generated
in it, or declare that it may throw those exceptions (so that the caller
can handle them).

Why do Python's exceptions remind me of one (frowned upon) way of
handling automatic weapons: "Spray and pray".

Sean
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