The Most Diabolical Python Antipattern

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/29/2015 09:36 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> ... but what do you guys and gals think?
> 
> I saw that blog referenced elsewhere a day or two ago. I think he's
> correct. There are the occasional instance where I need to recover
> from an exception no matter what caused it. In cases where I fail to
> report the traceback somewhere, I'm often left scratching my head.

I agree -- worst practice.


> In my mind, this is approximately as bad as an external library
> (silently) calling exit().

Yeah, I hate when that happens.  I hate it even more when it's my own library. :/  (yeah, I fixed that!)

--
~Ethan~

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