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> On Jul 1, 2016, at 6:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>=20
>> On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:25 pm, Christopher Reimer wrote:
>>=20
>> For my BASIC interpreter, each line of BASIC is broken this way into
>> tokens.
> [...]
>> By using * to unpack the split line, my program no longer crashes and no
>> try/except block is needed to work around the crash. A later line of code=

>> will test the expression, ignore if empty or run regex if full.
>=20
> I wish you wouldn't describe this as "crash".
>=20
> The Python interpreter should never crash. That would be a segmentation
> fault, and that is considered to be a very serious bug.
>=20
> But *raising an exception* is another story. Raising exceptions is not a
> crash, it is the interpreter working as expected. This statement:
>=20
>    line_number, keyword, expr =3D "20 END".split(' ', 2)
>=20
> is SUPPOSED to raise an exception, if it didn't, the interpreter would be
> broken. To call that a "crash" is horribly misleading.

Where did I write that the Python interpreter had "crashed"?

I wrote that *my program* crashed and I found an elegant solution to prevent=
 the crashing from happening in the first place that doesn't require a try/e=
xcept block.

Chris R.=