[Python-projects] pylint: W0706

[Sylvain Thénault]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0200, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> 
> Hi,

Hey Maarten,
 
> When I run pylint on the following code:
> ===
> class MultiException(Exception):
> 
>     def __init__(self):
>         Exception.__init__(self)
>         self.messages = []
> 
>     def add_error(self, message):
>         self.messages.append(message)
>         return self
> 
> raise MultiException().add_error('blah')
> ===
> I get the following output:
> ===
> W0706: 11: Identifier MultiException().add_error('blah') used to raise an
> exception is assigned to class MultiException(Exception):
>     def __init__(self):
>         Exception.__init__(self)
>         self.messages = []
>     def add_error(self, message):
>         self.messages.append(message)
>         return self
>  line 1
> ===
> 
> I don't understand what this warning is warning me about.

huum, I think pylint is trying to check that the exception you're
raising is something that can actually be raised, but in that case an
inference pb caused the false positive.

> Also, I think it's very strange that the class body is included in the
> warning.

indeed. I'll add a ticket for those two problems.
Thanks you for reporting this. 

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