• bjornsno@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Day 598 of asking for a way to tell which functions throw exceptions in Python so I can know when to wrap in try catch. Seems to me that every other language has this, but when I’ve asked for at least a linter that can tell me I’m calling a function that throws, the general answer has been “why would you want that?”

    How am I supposed to ask for forgiveness if it’s impossible to know that I’m doing something risky in the first place?

    • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, for this reason I would pretty much never encourage exceptions in Python over some other form of error handling. It’s so frustrating when called code throws some random exceptions that are completely undocumented. This is one of the few things Java got (sort of) right

    • sqw@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      cant practically anything throw an exception given the right (sometimes extremely remotely possible) circumstances?