Is python really slow?

[Jiri Baum]

Kragen Sitaker:
>> Python catches these errors and tells you about them, so you don't need
>> to post to a newsgroup to find out what went wrong.

Iain Truskett:
> Well, Perl catches the file errors, and it lets you handle them however
> you like. If you don't handle them, then it won't. It can also catch the
> others - you just have to ask it to. Sometimes you may not want it to.

Admittedly, there is an advantage in the default being "abort with stack
trace" rather than "ignore silently".

Python can do "ignore silently", but you have to specifically ask it to.


Jiri
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