Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!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 0.027 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*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; 'language.': 0.14; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'unlikely': 0.16; 'which,': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'programming': 0.22; 'spread': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'keyboard': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'chris': 0.29; 'tim': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'piece': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'advice': 0.35; 'european': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'easily': 0.37; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'bad': 0.39; 'weight': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'due': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'hands,': 0.84; 'lying': 0.84; 'subject:try': 0.84; 'fur': 0.91; 'suffer': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: try/except/finally Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:53:57 +0100 References: <0a89c96d-de62-42ad-be48-6107ce10d215@googlegroups.com> <539396F3.5090508@stoneleaf.us> <2e94b972-a630-4190-bc33-1074eb3278e3@googlegroups.com> <53979c30$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-18-9-167.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 140610-2, 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: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1402448035 news.xs4all.nl 2871 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:37101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:73147 On 11/06/2014 01:40, Tim Delaney wrote: > On 11 June 2014 10:00, Steven D'Aprano > > wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:37:01 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > 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. > > "Don't try to program while your cat is sleeping on the keyboard." > > > Lying down, the weight is spread across the whole keyboard so you're > unlikely to suffer extra keypresses due to the cat. So if you're a > touch-typist that one may not be too bad (depending on how easily their > fur gets up your nose). > > Now, a cat *standing* on the keyboard, between you and the monitor, and > rubbing his head against your hands, is a whole other matter. > > Tim Delaney > > Does it make any difference if the cat is European or African? -- 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