exception handling in complex Python programs

Fri Aug 22 09:54:33 EDT 2008

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:43:58 -0700 (PDT), Lie wrote:

> I think we should change except: into expect:, it would confuse less,
> would it? It signifies that the program expects so and so kinds of
> exceptional situations. The try: should also be changed to... perhaps
> in:, block:, onthiscode:, etc (this paragraph is written with my taste
> buds on the part of my face below my eye and above my jaw)

IMO it's not even worth considering. Breaking all the python
software that exists and moreover breaking the habits of programmists
to gain *nothing* is a waste of time of so many people, that
we should just forget it.

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Wojtek Walczak,
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