scoping assertion

[Robin Becker]

In article <19990708211651.A17658 at optiplex.palga.uucp>, Gerrit Holl
<gerrit.holl at pobox.com> writes
>On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 03:36:56PM -0600, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>> From: Andrew Dalke <dalke at bioreason.com>
>> Subject: Re: scoping assertion
>> Date:        Wed, 07 Jul 1999 15:36:56 -0600
>> To: python-list at python.org
>> 
>> 
>>   try:
>>     1/0
>>   except ZeroDivisionError:
>>
>
>isn't the following much easier, faster and readabler?
>try:
>  raise err
>except err:
>
>regards,
>Gerrit.
>
I use
try:
        raise None
except:
        ....
-- 
Robin Becker