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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:05:13 +1100
Subject: Re: how to insert random error in a programming
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15.10.12 17:04, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Debashish Saha <silideba@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> how to insert random error in a programming?
>>
>> how to ask question good in forumming?
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>> But here's one way to do it:
>>
>> raise random.choice((OSError,IOError,ZeroDivisionError,UnicodeDecodeError,AssertionError))()
>
> I think OP means something like
>
> programming[:0] = random.choice((OSError,IOError,ZeroDivisionError,UnicodeDecodeError,AssertionError))()

Ah, good point. Though it's worth noting that my version will happily
raise a NameError under certain circumstances, while yours will never
insert a NameError into programming.

This is potentially very important when inserting random errors.

ChrisA