[Q] Are Exceptions used that much in practice?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012122229470.19682-100000 at y.glue.umd.edu>,
Roy Katz  <katz at Glue.umd.edu> wrote:
>
>If you enclose statements in a try/except clause, and assuming no
>exception is thrown, what are the runtime penalties?

Minimal, from what I've heard, but I don't feel like doing any
benchmarking right now.
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