I’m writing a parser for a certain file format. If a file is not correctly formatted (and can not be parsed) then the parser throws an exception.
What exception class, in the Python 2 exception hierarchy, should I use?
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I’m writing a parser for a certain file format. If a file is not correctly formatted (and can not be parsed) then the parser throws an exception.
What exception class, in the Python 2 exception hierarchy, should I use?
How about
where
XyzParseris the name of your parser class? That’s also whatHTMLParserin the standard library does.