Steven Bethard wrote: > Exceptions are for > "exceptional" conditions, that is, things that you expect to happen > infrequently[1]. So if I think the code is going to fail frequently, I > test the condition, but if I think it won't, I use exceptions.
I think there exceptions (no pun intended) to that rule as well. A classic example is writing to a file. Even if you expect this to be impossible, it's best to just create it and trap the exception, thereby avoiding a race condition. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
