Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!roy From: Roy Smith Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: try/exception - error block Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:27:02 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1407083222 19668 127.0.0.1 (3 Aug 2014 16:27:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:27:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75610 In article , Mark Lawrence wrote: > How to go about this is at "Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), > Example" at http://sscce.org/ It says there, "most readers will stop reading by 100 lines of code". I guess I have a short attention span relative to "most readers", because my tl;dnr threshold is a lot shorter than that. The other advantage to coming up with a minimal example is that often the exercise of cutting your problem down to a minimal example is enough to allow you to figure it out for yourself :-)