On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:34:19 +0100 "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Your observation is not wrong, but, as Benjamin already explained, > you are misinterpreting Michi Henning's statement. He doesn't condemn > exception handling per se, but only for the handling of *expected* > outcomes. He would consider using exceptions fine for *exceptional* > output, and that is exactly the way they are used in the Python API. May I point out at this point that "exceptional" does not mean "unexpected"? You catch exceptions, not unexpectations. An exception is rare, but not surprising. Case in point: StopIteration. To put it differently: When you write "catch DeadParrot", you certainly expect to get a DeadParrot once in a while -- why else would you get it in your head to try and catch it? An unexpected exception is the one that crashes your program. /W -- INVALID? DE! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
