Illegal raise¶

ID: py/illegal-raiseKind: problemSecurity severity: Severity: errorPrecision: very-highTags:   - quality   - reliability   - error-handlingQuery suites:   - python-security-and-quality.qls

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If the object raised is not a legal Exception class or an instance of one, then aTypeError will be raised instead.

Legal exception classes are:

• Any old-style classes (Python 2 only)

• Any subclass of the builtin classBaseExceptionHowever, it recommended that you only use subclasses of the builtin classException (which is itself a subclass ofBaseException).

#Cannot raise an int, even if we want todefraise_int():#Will raise a TypeErrorraise4