Exceptions

When a cairo function or method call fails an cairo.Error exception, or a subclass thereof, is raised.

cairo.Error()

exception cairo.Error

This exception is raised when a cairo object returns an error status.

status

Type

cairo.Status

exception cairo.CairoError

An alias for Error

New in version 1.12.0.

exception cairo.MemoryError

Bases

Error, MemoryError

New in version 1.15: Prior to 1.15 MemoryError was raised instead of this type.

exception cairo.IOError

Bases

Error, IOError

New in version 1.15: Prior to 1.15 IOError was raised instead of this type.