Manually raising (throwing) an exception in Python

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2052390/manually-raising-throwing-an-exception-in-python

Accepted answer links:
[Use the most specific Exception constructor that semantically fits your issue]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy
[Instead, use the most specific Exception constructor that semantically fits your issue]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy
[the introduction of ]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0352/#retracted-ideas
[Python 3]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-raise-statement
[less efficient]: https://docs.python.org/2/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-raise-statement
[Valid in Python 2, but not in Python 3]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3109/
[valid in much older versions of Python]: https://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.5.html#pep-352-exceptions-as-new-style-classes

Answer 2 links:
[Aaron Hall's excellent answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24065533
[the raise statement documentation]: http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-raise-statement

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