Hi Walter ;) On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 4:21 PM Oliver Bestwalter <oli...@bestwalter.de> wrote:
> About the naming things problem: I don't know if this is overkill, but how > about having an exception like e.g. ReportableError or KnownError that > errors like using an invalid scope in your example can inherit from (e.g. > InvalidScope) can inherit from. All errors inheriting from that > ReportableError or KnownError could then be caught at the top level and be > reported differently without a noisy traceback (e.g. only printing out the > place where it occured and the error type and message). > I think ReportableError is a good name, as I'm having a hard time coming up with a good name that isn't similar to UsageError/UserError. :) Cheers, Bruno. > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 15:51 Florian Bruhin <m...@the-compiler.org> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:19:21AM -0300, Bruno Oliveira wrote: >> > This new exception type (I've used UsageError on my PR just for proof of >> > concept) should be part of the public API so plugins can also use it. >> > >> > I'm writing to the ML because it would be beneficial to get feedback >> from a >> > larger audience about what the *name* of the exception should be. >> > >> > UserError? InternalError? >> >> I dislike both, but without having a better idea (sorry :D). Here's why: >> >> UsageError is dangerously close to UsageError. It's also not clear >> from the name why they differ. >> >> InternalError sounds like the exceptions prefixed with INTERNALERROR>, >> (i.e. unhandled exceptions inside pytest), which seems like the exact >> opposite of what this is. >> >> Maybe we should rename UsageError to CliUsageError, or make sure >> UsageError is usable for this purpose? >> >> Florian >> >> -- >> https://www.qutebrowser.org | m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) >> GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc >> I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> pytest-dev mailing list >> pytest-dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev >> >
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