From cf4773d64f21dbdfa03521864d2aa6d2f1ea34c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "adrian.sampson" <none@none>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:52:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] used un-meta-class constructor to reduce verbosity of
 exception classdefs

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : svn%3A41726ec3-264d-0410-9c23-a9f1637257cc/trunk%40103
---
 beets/player/bpd.py | 31 ++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beets/player/bpd.py b/beets/player/bpd.py
index ec0ab4c5d..59c5834d2 100755
--- a/beets/player/bpd.py
+++ b/beets/player/bpd.py
@@ -59,13 +59,19 @@ class BPDError(Exception):
         to the given command.
         """
         return ErrorResponse(self.code, cmd.name, self.message)
-    
-class ArgumentTypeError(object):
-    """An error resulting from trying to cast an input argument.
+
+def make_bpd_error(self, s_code, s_message):
+    """Create a BPDError subclass for a static code and message.
     """
-    code = ERROR_ARG
-    message = 'invalid type for argument'
-    def __init__(self): pass
+    class NewBPDError(BPDError):
+        code = s_code
+        message = s_message
+        def __init__(self): pass
+    return NewBPDError
+
+ArgumentTypeError = make_bpd_error(ERROR_ARG, 'invalid type for argument')
+ArgumentIndexError = make_bpd_error(ERROR_ARG, 'argument out of range')
+ArgumentNotFoundError = make_bpd_error(ERROR_NO_EXIST, 'argument not found')
 
 def cast_arg(t, val):
     """Attempts to call t on val, raising a CommandArgumentError
@@ -82,19 +88,6 @@ def cast_arg(t, val):
         except ValueError:
             raise CommandArgumentError()
 
-class ArgumentIndexError(object):
-    """An error resulting from an out-of-range index argument.
-    """
-    code = ERROR_ARG
-    message = 'argument out of range'
-    def __init__(self): pass
-
-class ArgumentNotFoundError(object):
-    """An error for arguments that do not exist."""
-    code = ERROR_NO_EXIST
-    message = 'argument not found'
-    def __init__(self): pass
-
 class BPDClose(Exception):
     """Raised by a command invocation to indicate that the connection
     should be closed.