Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'widely': 0.05; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'whatever.': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'agree.': 0.16; 'chap': 0.16; 'exceptions,': 0.16; 'labels,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'simplest': 0.16; 'targetted': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'errors.': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'handling': 0.26; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.30; '(like': 0.30; 'label': 0.30; 'statement': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'cases': 0.33; 'entirely': 0.33; 'something': 0.35; 'anybody': 0.35; 'hundreds': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'similar': 0.36; 'easiest': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'bad': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'skip:* 10': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'became': 0.64; 'thomas': 0.65; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'goto': 0.84; 'rachel': 0.84; 'subject:try': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: try/except/finally Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:14:18 +0100 References: <0a89c96d-de62-42ad-be48-6107ce10d215@googlegroups.com> <539396F3.5090508@stoneleaf.us> <2e94b972-a630-4190-bc33-1074eb3278e3@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-146-4-197.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140610-1, 10/06/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1402424068 news.xs4all.nl 2912 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49097 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73112 On 10/06/2014 08:27, Thomas Rachel wrote: > Am 08.06.2014 05:58 schrieb Rustom Mody: > >> Some people¹ think that gotos are a code-smell. >> ¹ I am not exactly those people. >> A chap called E W Dijkstra made the statement: "Goto statement considered >> harmful" and became famous. > > And became widely misunderstood. If anybody would read the whole what he > wrote, people would learn that he doesn't criticise the *use* of goto, > but he wants the *replacement* of goto with something else (like > exceptions). > > As C doesn't have exceptions, goto is in many cases the simplest and > easiest way of handling errors. > > Essentially, you can write both good and bad code both with and without > goto. > > Thomaas I entirely agree. I find it incredible that some people find it so difficult to differentiate having tens or even hundreds of gotos leaping around willy nilly to a similar number of labels, and a similar number of gotos targetted at one label called SNAFU or whatever. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com