buggy python interpretter or am I missing something here?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:44 PM, me <noone at all.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:17:29 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> On 01/26/2014 10:46 PM, me wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]  I'm satisfied that the except: syntax yields undefined behavior,
>>> and in my mind it shouldn't be
>>>  syntactically allowed then.
>>
>> Two points:
>>
>>    1) Python is not C++
>>
>>    2) You asked for help; you received it.  Coming back
>>       with an attitude of "Python must be broken, I'll work around it"
>>       is going to quickly lose you the support of those willing to help
>>       again.
>
>
> Whatever...lighten up dude!

When you use a language, you should be working with it, not fighting
against it. It doesn't do to complain that REXX ought to have IEEE
floating-point semantics, or that 8086 assembly language really would
benefit from a native hashtable type. Python works a certain way, and
part of that is its use of exceptions - which are integral to the
language, rather than being (as in C++) somewhat tacked-on. Assuming
that anything that isn't the way you expect it is inherently broken,
and saying so on a mailing list, is a good way to alienate those who
are offering you help for no reimbursement... and "lighten up dude"
doesn't help.

ChrisA