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Re: try/exception - error block

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On 2014-08-03, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.12587.1407077774.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>  Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> How to go about this is at "Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), 
>> Example" at http://sscce.org/
>
> It says there, "most readers will stop reading by 100 lines of code".  I 
> guess I have a short attention span relative to "most readers", because 
> my tl;dnr threshold is a lot shorter than that.

Mine too.  My limit is about one screen full -- how many lines that is
varies, but is rarely more than 40 lines.

> The other advantage to coming up with a minimal example is that often 
> the exercise of cutting your problem down to a minimal example is enough 
> to allow you to figure it out for yourself :-)

That is very true.

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try/exception - error block bruce <badouglas@gmail.com> - 2014-08-03 10:29 -0400
  Re: try/exception - error block Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-08-03 10:39 -0400
    Re: try/exception - error block Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-03 15:55 +0100
      Re: try/exception - error block Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-08-03 12:27 -0400
        Re: try/exception - error block Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 02:42 +1000
        Re: try/exception - error block Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-04 15:12 +0000
    Re: try/exception - error block CHIN Dihedral <dihedral88888@gmail.com> - 2014-08-03 14:13 -0700
    Re: try/exception - error block Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-08-05 09:04 +1000
  Re: try/exception - error block Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-04 11:41 +1000

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