On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Monday 21 March 2016 12:35, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> I got to line 22, saw the bare except, and promptly gave up. >> >> Oh, keep going, Mark. It gets better. > [...] >> So, if any exception happens during the reading of the file, it gets >> squashed, and 0 is returned - which results in a generic message being >> printed, and the program terminating, with return value 0. Awesome! > > > While there is a certain level of entertainment to be gained from snarking > at other people's bad code, and I'm as guilty as anyone else for doing so, > please remember that Bart is engaged in a good-faith attempt to compare > Python to other dynamic code. He's not claiming to be a Python expert or > that he's writing idiomatic Python code.
Given that the exact same issue was pointed out the last time he posted a version of this code, I have less sympathy and more snark. I completely understand that not everyone understands what's idiomatic Python code; but when something is pointed out as a deadly anti-pattern (not just "that naming convention might confuse people"), I would expect to see changes. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
