[Python-ideas] except expression

[Ben Finney]

spir <denis.spir at gmail.com> writes:

> I think the right way is not to call the function at all, but to check
> it. Conceptually:
>
>   if col.is_empty():
>       handle_special_case()
>   else:
>       handle_standard_case()

Or, better from two perspectives (“empty” should normally entail
“evaluates to boolean false”; and, the normal case should be the first
branch from the “if”)::

    if col:
        handle_standard_case()
    else:
        handle_empty_case()

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