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On Nov 17, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Luthaf <lut...@luthaf.fr> wrote: > Ok, thank you ! > > So the way to go is "better ask for permission than for forgiveness" ! > > John Myles White a écrit : >> >> I don't believe this is possible in Julia right now. >> >> Which is ok in this case, since working with a KeyError is a very un-Julian >> way to check for key existence. You'll want to use haskey instead. >> >> -- John >> >> On Nov 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Luthaf <lut...@luthaf.fr> wrote: >> >>> Hello ! >>> >>> Is there a way to catch an exception by type in Julia ? Coming from python, >>> I am very tempted to do this kind of things: >>> ``` >>> try >>> # Access a dict here >>> catch e >>> if isa(KeyError, e) >>> # Handle the KeyError, as I know what to do in that case >>> else >>> # Re-throw to upper level >>> throw(e) >>> end >>> ``` >>> But that is a lot of boilerplate when used many times. >>> >>> Maybe it is not the Julia way to express this kind of problem (handling one >>> type of exception, while letting the others go up), but I could not find >>> something about it. >>> I can not just remove all the exceptions as some of them are thrown by Base. >>> >>> >>> Thank for yours answers ! >>> Guillaume >>
