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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Except that catching an exception just to immediately re-raise it is
> silly. This would be better:
>
> try:
>     name =3D handle.name
> except AttributeError:
>     pass
> else:
>     handle.write("# Report_file: %s\n" % name)


=E2=80=8BYa that would be silly.

Thanks=E2=80=8B everyone for the education.