[Baypiggies] Python way to avoid usage of raise

[Nick S Kanakakorn]

I don't want to do this.  There is someone that against throwing exception
and that person has more seniority than me. He put in a guideline.  I lost
in the debate.  There is no proper research done and all the decisions were
made in less than 1 day.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tung Wai Yip <tungwaiyip at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Why do you want to do this? Is this just an internal coding guideline? Or
> is it done for interfacing to another language or running on non-standard
> VM? Is this apply to new code only or do you want to update existing code as
> well?
>
> There is no equivalent of C macro in Python. Just apply every code change
> as you describe it. Build a tuple every time you return something. Change
> raise into returning tuple. And change ever function call to expecting a
> tuple return value. I can't think of anything smarter. it looks like a
> complete disaster anyway.
>
> Wai yip
>
>
>
>
>  Let's skip the rationale discussion although I feel better for your
>> sympathy.  One non python solution I can think of is Macro (C/C++) or add
>> a
>> new command  which could work in any stack frame (TCL).
>> However, I'm quite new to python so I'm not so sure if there are some ways
>> around this.
>>
>> Can we have something similar to macro in python ?
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> > My work place has imposed a rules for no use of exception (catching is
>>> allowed).
>>>
>>> What?!?
>>>
>>> Forgive my reaction, I'm just very surprised. Why has your workplace
>>> implemented this policy? Has anyone else on BayPIGgies seen a  policy
>>> like
>>> this? What's the rationale?  Am I a Luddite for not hearing on this?
>>>
>>> I'm sorry. I know you asked a genuine question and I haven't answered it.
>>> I
>>> just found this very odd and am first getting my head around the
>>> question.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Glen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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