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On 03/06/2015 19:28, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 06/03/2015 09:15 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> I kept the except. I like to see the message that went wrong. ;-)
>
> That's fine, but then add a `raise` after you print the error so you can
> see the reason that message failed.
>
> --
> ~Ethan~

Why bother in the first place, especially when you're developing?  Far 
easier to let the exception bubble up, or are we talking cross purposes?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence