syntax question - if 1:print 'a';else:print 'b'

[James Stroud]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 11:16, Carsten Haese wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:00, Gregory Piñero wrote:
> > Not quite because if something(3) fails, I still want something(4) to
> > run.
>
> def something_ignore_exceptions(x):
>   try: something(x)
>   except: pass
>
> something_ignore_exceptions(1)
> something_ignore_exceptions(2)
> # etc...

I'm at the point where I don't understand why you can't use this:

def try_somethings(alist):
  def try_something(el):
    try:
      something(el)
    except e:
      do_exception(el, e)
  for an_el in alist:
    try_something(an_el)

See also <http://www.artima.com/intv/dry.html>.

James

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