Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: try/exception - error block Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1407165175 9165 64.122.56.22 (4 Aug 2014 15:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:12:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75696 On 2014-08-03, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Mark Lawrence 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I am NOT a nut.... at gmail.com