On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right. Especially in a ducktyping context, AttributeError and TypeError
> are often functionally equivalent - it usually isn't worthwhile adding code
> specifically to turn one into the other.
>
Yeah, these are so often interchangeable that I wish they had a common
ancestor. Then again when you are catching these you might as well be
catching all exceptions.
> The case that doesn't throw an exception at all seems a little strange,
> but I haven't looked into the details.
>
It comes from a simple approach to creating an intersection; paraphrasing,
the code does this:
def intesection(a, b):
result = set()
for x in a:
if x in b:
result.add(x)
return result
If a is empty this never looks at b. I think it's okay not to raise in this
case (though it would also be okay if it *did* raise).
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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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