How best to write this try/except block?

[Andy Gimblett]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:10:53PM +0000, Jeff Youel wrote:

> You can avoid the exception handler altogether with:
> 
>     value = d.get(key, None)
>     if value:
>         foo = stuff(value)
>     else:
>         foo = otherStuff(key)

Nasty.  What if foo[key] is 0?  Or (evil cackle) False...  ;-)

Use has_key() or try...except...else instead.

-Andy

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