PY3.E0702

Raising bad type

Used when something which is neither a class, an instance or a string is raised (i.e. a TypeError will be raised).

Noncompliant Code:

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def foo(x, y):
    try:
        return x / y
    except ZeroDivisionError:
        raise None

Compliant Code:

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def foo(x, y):
    try:
        return int(x / y)
    except ZeroDivisionError as e:
        raise ValueError from e

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