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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: What sort of exception when a class can't find something?
Date: 1 Sep 2023 12:14:41 GMT
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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> writes:
>What sort of exception should a class raise in __init__() when it
>can't find an appropriate set of data for the parameter passed in to
>the class instantiation?

  Possibilities:

'EnvironmentError',
'FileNotFoundError',
'NotImplemented',
'NotImplementedError', or
'ValueError'.