Bart Kastermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The defensive thing to do is catch exactly the exception you > > expect to happen. In this case, that means IndexError. > > And you do that by > > except IndexError: > raise TheErrorYouNowWantToRaise
You only do that if you want to throw away important information, such as the traceback associated with the original exception. Not very friendly to debugging. > And > except IndexError, e: > > if you want access to the exception as well. Usually best if it can be achieved. Not least because the bare 'raise' statement will re-raise the original exception, complete with all its context. -- \ “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we | `\ despise, we don't believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky, | _o__) 1992-11-25 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
