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A small script to print out the Exception inheritance hierarchy. Useful for writing exception handling (Python 2.5+)
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Print Python's Exception objects hierarchy
#!/usr/bin/env python
def classtree(cls, indent=0):
print '.' * indent, cls.__name__
for subcls in cls.__subclasses__():
classtree(subcls, indent + 3)
classtree(BaseException)
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