Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.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 0.023 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '~ethan~': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'broken.': 0.16; 'ought': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'which,': 0.16; 'exception': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'programming': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'chris': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'piece': 0.31; 'open': 0.33; 'cases': 0.33; 'guess': 0.33; 'advice': 0.35; 'board': 0.35; 'chair': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'soon': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'smith': 0.68; 'yourself': 0.78; 'countries,': 0.84; 'ethan': 0.84; 'fortunate': 0.84; 'furman': 0.84; 'proves': 0.84; 'subject:try': 0.84; 'amongst': 0.91 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 22:59:41 +0100 References: <0a89c96d-de62-42ad-be48-6107ce10d215@googlegroups.com> <539396F3.5090508@stoneleaf.us> <2e94b972-a630-4190-bc33-1074eb3278e3@googlegroups.com> <53976DE7.5040008@stoneleaf.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: <53976DE7.5040008@stoneleaf.us> 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: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1402439883 news.xs4all.nl 2961 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53723 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73138 On 10/06/2014 21:43, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 06/10/2014 01:38 PM, Roy Smith wrote: >> Chris Angelico 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"? > > Sounds like the exception that proves the rule! ;) > > -- > ~Ethan~ After that one please consider yourself fortunate that the UK, amongst other countries, no longer has the death penalty. I guess that The Comfy Chair will have to suffice :) -- 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