So this is probably a fairly basic question, but help me out because I'm just not lining things up and I'm somewhat new to the world of exception handling.
What's the benefit to inheriting an exception from and of the available parent exception classes? Does one subclass have benefits over any other? Most of what I see involves making a new class and inheriting from Exception so that one can have an exception class with a name of their choosing. If you didn't care about the name would there be any benefit to making a subclass versus raising StandardError or something else equally vanilla? Are there any difference to library provided exceptions other than their names? -carl -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list