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Subject: Re: Overuse of try/except/else?
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On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 19:40 -0500, Kyle T. Jones wrote:
> It has been hard for me to determine what would constitute overuse.

The chronic problem is under use; so I wouldn't worry much about it.

try/except should occur as often as is required for the application to
either deal gracefully with the condition or report *meaningful* error
messages to the user/administrator.