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I'm working on the Python client library [0]for the Google Ads API [1]. In some 
cases, we can start a request with a partial failure [2] flag = True. This 
means that the request may contain say 1000 operations. If any of the 
operations fail, the request will return with a success status without an 
exception. Then the developer has to iterate through the list of operation 
return statuses to determine which specific ones failed (example [3]).

I believe that it would be more idiomatic in Python (and other languages like 
Ruby) to throw an exception when one of these partial errors occur. That way 
there would be the same control flow if a major or minor error occurred. 

The team is asking me for other examples or justification of this being 
idiomatic of Python. Can you recommend any examples or related best practices?

[0] https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-python

[1] https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/start

[2] 
https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/best-practices/partial-failures

[3] 
https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-python/blob/master/examples/error_handling/handle_partial_failure.py

Thanks!
-David
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