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From: Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Newbie: use of built-in exceptions
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:17:26 +0100
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Are there any guidelines on the use (and abuse) of Python's built-in exceptions, telling where 
it's ok to raise them and where it's preferable to define custom exceptions instead?  


Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel