How best to write this try/except block?

[Chris Liechti]

David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote in news:eppstein-
055127.14142303042002 at news.service.uci.edu:

> In article <Xns91E5CE0E5919Dcliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>,
>  Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> if d.has_key(key):
>>      foo = stuff(d[key])
>> else:
>>      foo = otherStuff(key)
> 
> I've seen a couple responses suggesting this.
> 
> Is there a reason why in modern Python versions one should still use 
> has_key?  I like the syntax "if key in d" better.

i like it also but its still very new (py 2.2)...

[Python22/Doc/lib/typesmapping.html]

chris

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