On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> Hallvard B Furuseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> class NeverRaised(Exception): pass
>>>> for ex in ZeroDivisionError, NeverRaised:
>>>
>>> Heh. Simple enough. Unless some obstinate person raises it anyway...
>>
>> Hmm, ok, how's this?:
>>
>> def NeverRaised():
>> class blorp(Exception): pass
>> return blorp
>> for ex in ZeroDivisionError, NeverRaised():
>> ...
Nice.
> Or you can create an unraisable exception:
>
>>>> \
> class NeverRaised(Exception):
> def __init__(self, *args):
> raise RuntimeError('NeverRaised should never be raised')
Briliant! Although i'd be tempted to define an UnraisableExceptionError to
signal what's happened. Or ...
class ImpossibleException(Exception):
def __init__(self, *args):
raise ImpossibleException, args
Although crashing the interpreter is probably overkill.
tom
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