last updated 2 years ago by osuchw #

The section describing User-defined Exceptions should begin with the simplest possible example and only later on show more elaborate ones. I recall when learning Python it took me a while to realize that I did not need to override any methods to utilize custom exceptions. For example:

>>> class MyError(Exception):
...     pass
...     
>>> raise MyError, 'Something bad happened'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
MyError: Something bad happened

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