Removing Pubic Hair Methods

Sergio Correia sergio.correia at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 22:38:30 EST 2008


So in this case it is REALLY better to ask for permission rather than
forgiveness?

On Jan 30, 2008 10:30 PM, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> MRAB <google at mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
>
> > On Jan 31, 12:57 am, Asun Friere <afri... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Ouch!! If on the other hand 'females' is populated by instances of
> > > (or merely includes instances of) class 'Human', I suggest you
> > > test for female.consent somewhere in your code!
> > >
> > The Pythonic approach would be to try the action and catch a
> > NoConsentException.
>
> You're making the classic Pythonista mistake: you behave as though
> EAFP applies everywhere. I assure you, in the above situation, it does
> not apply.
>
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