How do you find what exceptions a class can throw?

[dn]

On 20/12/2020 22:39, Chris Green wrote:
> I am using poplib.POP3_SSL() and I want to know what exceptions can be
> thrown when I instantiate it.  Presumably it inherits them because
> there's nothing much in the documentation page for poplib.POP3_SSL().
> 
> I specifically want to trap timeout exceptions.
> 
> (... and, yes, I know I should maybe move to IMAP but that's too much
> work at the moment!)


This morning, reading the results of the Virtual Python Core Developer 
Sprint 2020 
(https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/12/virtual-python-core-developer-sprint.html) 
and from there, PEP 594 -- Removing dead batteries from the standard 
library (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/), the impression 
gained is that the old/existing PSL offerings, eg poplib, are soon to be 
deprecated, in favor of asyncio and presumably something like aioimap 
(https://pypi.org/project/aioimaplib/).

Async handles with timeouts implicitly.

Apologies for the lack of direct-answer. That's as far as my reading has 
taken me. Hopefully someone, more in-the-know, will be able to advise...
-- 
Regards =dn