buggy python interpretter or am I missing something here?

[me]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:01:33 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

> 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

You feel better now that you too have vented?  I had a productive 
discussion with a couple of top level posters who helped me solve my 
problem and they receive appropriate kuddos.  Now it seems that some 
lonely individuals who maybe just want some attention are coming out of 
the woodwork.

The thread is done so lets give it a rest.  The condescending attitude 
about proper USENET tech help is just as annoying as perhaps my 
"opinions" seem.  If someone is so sensitive as to not be able to discuss 
a technical matter without making it personal or seeing it as an attack 
against their religion then I neither want nor need their input.  There 
are plenty of technical resources in the world that don't require idol 
worship.

Regards