Questions tagged [exception]
An exception is a rarely occurring (exceptional!) condition that requires deviation from the program's normal flow.
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Design By Contract Library in C++
I asked this question on StackOverflow, and got exactly the answer I needed at the time. I am now here to ask - Is this a good design? The motivation for writing up this library: my shop writes ...
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Java exceptions that show the message when converted to String
I’m working with custom exceptions in Java for stack operations. However, I’m unsure if the exception handling is being handled properly, especially in terms of how exceptions are thrown and caught. ...
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Python exception for handling invalid argument types
Greetings One small problem that anyone have to tackle with in Python is handling invalid argument types ( without an automatic static type checking tool like Mypy ) One of the best methods for ...
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Wrap a noexcept C++ library method with a method throwing exceptions with usable explanatory strings to stay DRY
In our apps we're using a shared inhouse library which provides filesystem functions. All the functions are noexcept. In several apps i found that similar or identical error return translations are ...
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Catching the timed out Exception raised by the __init__ method of the class ftplib.FTP
Introduction I have written a Python class which uses the module ftplib. In this class I have created a private method called <...
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User-defined Exceptions for Stack implementation
I am learning about user-defined exceptions in python and I have tried to incorporate them in a basic python implementation of a stack. Objects of Stack class ...
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Beginner Java Tic-Tac-Toe
I had a Tic Tac Toe assignment for class and the program seems to work fine but I feel like the exception/input handling could be done in a much better way. Is this a good way to approach the ...
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Write a simple, clean error message without a backtrace and exit on failure
I want to write on failure to either STDOUT or STDERR a clean, simple error message for the user, without the (verbose) ...
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Extensible error code infrastructure
I was answering a question, Java Exception Error Enumerations Anti-pattern, on Software Engineering Stack Exchange and found myself writing up a fair bit of code. It could use a code review so I'm ...
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Wordle guesser, breaking out of loop by raising exception
After many years away from writing in Python, I am getting back into it. Specifically, I am trying to teach myself dataclasses. As an exercise I wrote a Wordle-solving program. I downloaded the ...
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Class to wrap result or exception, similar to the OneOf approach
I recently came across the OneOf<T0,...,Tn> package from mcintyre321 via a video by Nick Chapsas, which presents the idea of holding exception types to be ...
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Generic Scanner(System.in) Parsing
Often end up using a Scanner to grab some simple input and often when dealing with Number input it can result in a lot of little ...
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C++ exception class for error reporting, compatible with C++98 through C++20 (ver 2)
This question contains revised code from the question What should a C++ error reporting exception class have to be portable across language versions?. I summarize what is different from that code at ...
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What should a C++ error reporting exception class have to be portable across language versions? (ver 1)
Link to revised (ver 2) question This question contains the first version of the code for the task explained below. The revised version is at C++ exception class for error reporting, compatible with ...
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C++ exception handling
I'm getting throw exception and need your review The main function bellow trying to allocate memory several times and then throw the exception on the upper level. ...
