Re: raise None

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: raise None
Date	2015-12-31 11:38 +1100
Message-ID	<mailman.96.1451522295.11925.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I have a lot of functions that perform the same argument checking each time:
>
> def spam(a, b):
>     if condition(a) or condition(b): raise TypeError
>     if other_condition(a) or something_else(b): raise ValueError
>     if whatever(a): raise SomethingError
>     ...
>
> def eggs(a, b):
>     if condition(a) or condition(b): raise TypeError
>     if other_condition(a) or something_else(b): raise ValueError
>     if whatever(a): raise SomethingError
>     ...
>
>
> Since the code is repeated, I naturally pull it out into a function:
>
> def _validate(a, b):
>     if condition(a) or condition(b): raise TypeError
>     if other_condition(a) or something_else(b): raise ValueError
>     if whatever(a): raise SomethingError
>
> def spam(a, b):
>     _validate(a, b)
>     ...
>
> def eggs(a, b):
>     _validate(a, b)
>     ...
>
>
> But when the argument checking fails, the traceback shows the error
> occurring in _validate, not eggs or spam. (Naturally, since that is where
> the exception is raised.) That makes the traceback more confusing than it
> need be.

If the validation really is the same in all of them, then is it a
problem to see the validation function in the traceback? Its purpose
isn't simply "raise an exception", but "validate a specific set of
inputs". That sounds like a perfectly reasonable traceback line to me
(imagine if your validation function has a bug).

ChrisA

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raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-31 11:09 +1100
  Re: raise None Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-30 16:19 -0800
  Validation in Python (was: raise None) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-31 11:26 +1100
  Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 11:38 +1100
    Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-31 12:26 +1100
      Re: raise None Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-31 12:44 +1100
        Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-31 15:07 +1100
          Re: raise None Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 12:19 +0000
            Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-01 02:35 +1100
              Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 02:53 +1100
              Re: raise None Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 16:46 +0000
                Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-01 04:50 +1100
              Re: raise None "Martin A. Brown" <martin@linux-ip.net> - 2015-12-31 09:30 -0800
              Re: raise None Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-01 07:18 +1100
                Re: raise None Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2016-01-02 12:47 +0100
              Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 09:48 +1100
                Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-04 16:19 +1100
                Re: raise None Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2016-01-04 06:09 +0000
                Re: raise None Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 22:39 -0800
              Re: raise None Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-01 10:27 +1100
                Re: raise None Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-01 02:29 +0200
                Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-04 16:19 +1100
                Re: raise None Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 21:53 -0800
                Re: raise None Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 03:55 -0800
                Re: raise None Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 21:53 -0800
              Re: raise None Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-31 23:36 +0000
              Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 10:39 +1100
              Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 10:41 +1100
              Re: raise None Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 19:04 -0800
                Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 14:31 +1100
                Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-04 14:48 +1100
                Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 14:56 +1100
                Re: raise None Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 20:46 -0800
              Re: raise None Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-01-04 08:28 +0100
      Re: raise None Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 13:12 +1100
      Re: raise None Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-12-31 15:03 +1100
        Re: raise None Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-31 16:12 +1100
          Re: raise None Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-12-31 16:45 +1100
  Re: raise None Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-30 23:00 -0500
  Re: raise None Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-31 15:58 +0000
  Re: raise None Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-12-31 17:17 +0100

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