[Tutor] looking for some general advice

[Michael Klier]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> I'm not surecwhy but your messages are coming through to me 
> as text attachments which makes quoting them tricky...

Hmmm, I did a group reply in mutt the last time, lets see if a direct
reply and manuall CC: works right.

> > Also, what would be the right exception to raise if not 
> > enough arguments were passed to a programm?
> 
> I don't think there is a right answer, you can decide 
> for yourself, buty in general I try using the >>> prompt 
> with a deliberate error to see what Python does, thus:
> 
> >>> range()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: range expected at least 1 arguments, got 0

That`s a very useful hint :) (makes me ask myself why I didn`t thought
about that yet ;)).

> So it looks like TypeError but personally I'm not so sure 
> that works for argv... I think a simple usage message and 
> exit with non zero is fine.

Well, that`s an option I didn`t thought of yet, I think I`ll do it that
way then.

Thanks or all your feedback.

Best Regards
Michael

-- 
Michael Klier
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