Just back from the annual patriotic revelry...
Here are my thoughts on the various kinds of exceptions one might raise to
denote various problems with indentation.
SyntaxError - the most general form of parsing error
WhitespaceError - tells the user something's wrong with the way the
whitespace of the line parses - what -tt mode would raise
IndentationError - more specific than WhitespaceError, but indicates the
lines won't line up properly (without -tt mode) - what the parser would
raise for something like:
try:
1/0
1/0
except ZeroDivisionError:
pass
The distinction between WhitespaceError and IndentationError is likely to be
a bit subtle for newbies, so I wonder if it's worth the effort to
distinguish the two.
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