On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:37 AM M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote:
> Hi Ram, > > I think you are confusing the exception type with the exception > reason. Some time ago `ModuleNotFoundError` was added as a subclass of `ImportError`, which I really liked. Was this also another instance of a confusion between the exception type and the exception reason? > By adding 100 more exception types, you don't make things > easier, but instead you complicate things, since we'd all have > to memorize those 100 exception types. > Why would you have to memorize them? If you're writing an except clause, you could still write `except ValueError:` and it'll work the same as before. Do you feel that the addition of `ModuleNotFoundError` meant that you now had to memorize a new exception?
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