raise-missing-from / W0707ΒΆ

Message emitted:

Consider explicitly re-raising using %s'%s from %s'

Description:

Python's exception chaining shows the traceback of the current exception, but also of the original exception. When you raise a new exception after another exception was caught it's likely that the second exception is a friendly re-wrapping of the first exception. In such cases `raise from` provides a better link between the two tracebacks in the final error.

Problematic code:

try:
    1 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
    raise ValueError("Rectangle Area cannot be zero")  # [raise-missing-from]

Correct code:

try:
    1 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
    raise ValueError("Rectangle Area cannot be zero") from e

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