variables exist

[Richard Brodie]

"Brian van den Broek" <bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> wrote in message
news:mailman.1703.1113237192.1799.python-list at python.org...

> I'm a hobbyist and still learning, but the claim the try/except is
> "lousy Python" surprise me a bit.

I think it wasn't the use of try/except as such. It's more that
if you're the developer you ought to know whether variables
are defined or not. It might be a sign you're using global
variables more often than would be considered good style in
Python.