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Re: Overuse of try/except/else?

Subject Re: Overuse of try/except/else?
From Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
References <iqa1fd$4l0$1@dont-email.me>
Date 2011-05-10 07:36 -0400
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1380.1305027477.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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.

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Overuse of try/except/else? "Kyle T. Jones" <onexpadREMOVE@EVOMERyahoodotyouknow.com> - 2011-05-09 19:40 -0500
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-05-10 11:09 +1000
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-05-10 11:34 +0200
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2011-05-10 07:36 -0400
    Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-05-10 13:10 +0100
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Paul Probert <paulprobert@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-05-10 22:26 -0500
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-05-11 13:37 +1000
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 00:33 +1100

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