Exception as the primary error handling mechanism?

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>
> Exceptions are *exceptional*, not "errors" or "unexpected". They are
> exceptional because they aren't the "normal" case, but that doesn't mean
> they are surprising or unexpected. Are you surprised that your "for x in
> range(1000)" loop comes to an end? Of course you are not -- it is
> completely expected, even though less than 1% of the iterations are the
> last loop. The end of the sequence is EXCEPTIONAL but not UNEXPECTED.
>

Sorry if my word choice was confusing- I was trying to point out that
in Python, you don't test errors for your typical conditions, but for
ones that you know still exist but don't plan on occurring often.