Function throws

recipes/Python/252530_ExceptiHandling/recipe-252530.py:1–8

Return True if f(*a,**k) raises an exception.

(f, *a, **k)

def throws(f, *a, **k):
    "Return True if f(*a,**k) raises an exception."
    try:
        f(*a,**k)
    except:
        return True
    else:
        return False


# Example - get numbers from a file, ignoring ill-formatted ones.