converting a nested try/except statement into try/except/else
Simon Forman
rogue_pedro at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 9 16:19:42 EDT 2006
John Salerno wrote:
> I'm starting out with this:
>
> try:
> if int(text) > 0:
> return True
> else:
> self.error_message()
> return False
> except ValueError:
> self.error_message()
> return False
>
> I rewrote it as this:
>
> try:
> int(text)
> except ValueError:
> self.error_message()
> return False
> else:
> return True
>
> I think it's much cleaner, but obviously I lost the test in the original
> if statement.
>
> So my question is, can I still retain this second structure and still
> test for > 0, but not have any extra nesting?
>
> Thanks.
What about the version I gave you 8 days ago? ;-)
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a80fcd8932b0733a
It's clean, does the job, and doesn't have any extra nesting.
Peace,
~Simon
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