Which exception to use?

[Michael Hudson]

Chad Netzer <cnetzer at mail.arc.nasa.gov> writes:

> I do things like this for some library functions that I create (I 
> welcome discussion about whether it is a good approach)
> 
> class ArgumentError( Exception ):
>     pass

This *is* a good approach (IMHO), but you should consider deriving
your exceptions from StandardError instead (I rarely remember to do
this, either).

Cheers,
M.

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