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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Guarding arithmetic |
| Date | 2012-08-23 15:11 +0100 |
| References | <8b9a5844-66b0-4940-946a-5e626462cdce@googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3714.1345730984.4697.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 23/08/2012 10:05, Mark Carter wrote: > Suppose I want to define a function "safe", which returns the argument passed if there is no error, and 42 if there is one. So the setup is something like: > > def safe(x): > # WHAT WOULD DEFINE HERE? > > print safe(666) # prints 666 > print safe(1/0) # prints 42 > > I don't see how such a function could be defined. Is it possible? > Well you've already got lots of answers but I'm not certain about what you're trying to achieve. If you could explicitly state your requirements I'm sure that the numerous MVPs (Most Valuable Pythonistas) here would come up with The Best Solution ™ to your problem. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.
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Guarding arithmetic Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 02:05 -0700
Re: Guarding arithmetic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 19:16 +1000
Re: Guarding arithmetic Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 02:22 -0700
Re: Guarding arithmetic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 19:29 +1000
Re: Guarding arithmetic Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 02:22 -0700
Re: Guarding arithmetic Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-23 11:23 +0200
Re: Guarding arithmetic Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 02:47 -0700
Re: Guarding arithmetic Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 02:47 -0700
Re: Guarding arithmetic Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-23 11:28 +0200
Re: Guarding arithmetic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 19:30 +1000
Re: Guarding arithmetic Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-08-23 12:11 +0200
Re: Guarding arithmetic rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-08-23 10:15 -0700
Re: Guarding arithmetic Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-23 13:01 +0200
Re: Guarding arithmetic MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-23 12:21 +0100
Re: Guarding arithmetic Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-08-23 13:28 +0200
Re: Guarding arithmetic Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-23 15:11 +0100
Re: Guarding arithmetic Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-23 14:49 -0400
Re: Guarding arithmetic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-24 07:48 +1000
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