Hi, I was wondering if the following idea would be a useful addition to the Python language and if it could use a new PEP. I personally find myself often looking into the documentation & implementation of libraries I use to try and figure out what exceptions a function may raise.
In the same vein as adding type annotations to code, I think it'd be very useful to have exception "raises" annotations, i.e. a way to annotate what exceptions a function raises. Again, like type annotations, it shouldn't be mandatory nor actually be enforced at runtime. It would purely serve as a feature that IDEs can make use of. An example of how it may look: def divide(numerator: float, denominator: float) raises [ZeroDivisionError] -> float: return numerator / denominator I'd love to know if this is an idea you'd be interested in having added to the language. Kind regards, Sergio Fenoll _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/LFUZR6NH35HOLTVGV5YRB6457KZ2KJ5A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
