[Baypiggies] Exceptions and flow control

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Jan 23 16:18:33 CET 2009


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
>
> I could probably give a newbie nugget just on ways of abusing
> exceptions for flow control ;)  Fun!

Why do you call that abuse?  Often exceptions are the clearest/simplest
mechanism for managing multiple levels of flow control.
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