Forms ValidationError and error code

Question

In Django documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/validation/#raising-validationerror said that it is good practice to prodive error code while raising

Answer 1

Take a look at ValidationError definition in django src, it's used as a convenient way to pass additional identifier (similar to e.errno in standard python exception), you can use it like this:

try:
    ...
    raise ValidationError(u'Oops', code=0x800)
    ...

except ValidationError as e:
    print "Error code: ", e.code