[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > In python, how do I know what exceptions a method
s/method/callable/ A method is only a thin wrapper around a function, and functions are just one kind of callable object (classes are another, and you can define your own...) > could raise? Practically speaking, you can't. Since an unhandled exception bubbles up the call stack, there's no reliable way to know what exception could happen when calling a function. Now there are quite a lot of 'exceptions' you can expect in some situations - like IOError when dealing with files, etc. > Do I > need to look at the source? Would be impractical. Trying to spot each and every exception that could happen in a real-world call stack is a waste of time IMHO. Just deal with the ones that: 1/ could obviously happen here (like : a missing key in a dict, a non-(existing|readable|writable) file, etc, 2/ you can handle at this level Else, just learn to live with the fact that shit happens. > I don't see this info in the API docs for > any of the APIs I'm using. Indeed. Most of the time, it would be just meaningless. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list