Gurus, I wonder if you can take a look at this source code? Win32...

[G. Willoughby]

Thanks  :)

G. Willoughby

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
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> G. Willoughby wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > Hi,
> >     I have started writing a text editor for Win32 platforms
>
> It works fine on Linux simply by not importing win32api. As far as I
> can see, you could easily remove all uses of win32api functions. Is it
> really needed for tooltips, for example?
>
> > and i wonder if anyone has a few minutes spare just to take a look
> > at the source code and give me a little constructive critisism?
>
> I didn't find much to critizize :-)
>
> I've seen this bad practise several times:
>
> try:
>     # something
> except:
>     pass
>
> A better way to do this is to only catch the exceptions that can be
> caught there, like IOError or whatever. Catching all exceptions makes
> the code difficult to debug and can hide errors for a long time. It's
> also a good practise to not only "pass", but log the errors to a
> logfile, or simply write the exception to stderr.
>
> Gerhard
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