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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:43:19 +1000
Subject: Re: try/except/finally
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.10972.1402432630.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah. As soon as you take on board a hard-and-fast rule, you open
>> yourself up to stupid cases where the rule ought to have been broken.
>> I don't know a single piece of programming advice which, if taken as
>> an inviolate rule, doesn't at some point cause suboptimal code.
>
> How about, "Don't use PHP"?

Actually, that one might fit now. In years past, that advice would
often lead you to write very expensive code, because it couldn't be
run on a cheap web host - if you write something in Python, you have
to pay through the nose, but any piece-of-rubbish host will give you
PHP. That may now be changing, though.

ChrisA