Which exception should I raise on bad/illegal argument combinations in Python?

Question

I was wondering about the best practices for indicating invalid argument combinations in Python. I\'ve come across a few situations where you have a function like so:

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Answer 1

I think the best way to handle this is the way python itself handles it. Python raises a TypeError. For example:

$ python -c 'print(sum())'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: sum expected at least 1 arguments, got 0

Our junior dev just found this page in a google search for "python exception wrong arguments" and I'm surprised that the obvious (to me) answer wasn't ever suggested in the decade since this question was asked.