Comparison with False - something I don't understand

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Dec 2 10:21:53 EST 2010


On 12/2/2010 9:56 AM, Harishankar wrote:
> 3. Philosophically I think exception handling is the wrong approach to 
> error management. I have never grown up programming with exceptions in C 
> and I couldn't pick up the habit with python either. Did I mention that I 
> detest try blocks? try blocks seem ugly and destroy code clarity at least 
> in my view. And enclosing single statements under separate try blocks 
> seem to add a lot of clutter. 

Whereas lots of nested if statements to test that multiple errors have
all not occurred is a model of clarity? This sounds to me like a
prejudice that will harm your Python development.

regards
 Steve
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