On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:25:55 +0000, Tim Harig wrote: >... >... > > Perhaps you should take a look at how Erlang appoaches exception > handling. Being message passing and concurrency oriented, Erlang > encourages ignoring error conditions within worker processes. Errors > instead cause the worker processes to be killed and a supervisory > process is notified, by message, so that it can handle the error and > respawn the worker process. Since it doesn't use try/exept blocks, > maybe that will be more to your liking.
Thanks for the reply. I understand that the error vs exception debate is quite a big one in the programming community as a whole and I don't consider myself very knowledgeable in these issues. However, I will try to approach this with an open mind and see whether I can work with exceptions comfortably in Python. I do understand both sides of the issue. Exceptions seem to be generally more reliable but I feel they add a lot of complexity particular when a lot of code is placed in a try block. -- Harishankar (http://harishankar.org http://lawstudentscommunity.com) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
