Chris, > "Control flow" is anything that changes the order that your code runs.
My apologies, I should have said "a control flow mechanism" /in this context/ (though I assumed that as implicite, as I quoted the text from the OP). Case in point, the __init__ code (of a class object) can result in an exception, and I need to deal with it. But I should /not/ wrap whole blocks of code into a "try ... except" construction - which definitily is what will happen when I want to catch, in the calling program, exceptions thrown by the object while its initialising. So, I was wondering if the "a control flow mechanism" reference was aimed at something that would alleviate the above "you must, but you shouldn't" conundrum. Regards, Rudy Wieser -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
