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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:54:53 +0000
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On 23/12/2013 03:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Another C thing to complain about, with functions like malloc the status
>> code and value returned are one and the same thing, except that NULL is
>> failure in this case.
>
> How's that a problem? Python has the same:

Remembering to check it?

>
> memory.get(1234)

You learn something new every day or April 1st come early?

>
> will return a bit of memory, or None if it can't get any. Not
> materially different. Remember, C doesn't have exceptions. In C++, the
> 'new' operator will throw an exception if it can't provide memory.
>
> ChrisA
>


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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
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Mark Lawrence