On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
> What having to try-it-and-see does is give me extra steps to know what
> it does. Instead of only reading the documentation, now I have to both
> read the documentation *and* try it out in the interactive interpreter
> to see its behaviour
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Karl Knechtel wrote:
> I really wish gmail picked up the mailing list as a default reply-to
> address...
There is some labs thing that makes "reply to all" the default if you
click the button on the top-right. Unfortunately, that applies for
non-mailing-lists too
Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
There are times when you want to catch all exceptions, though.
Top-level code will often want to replace exception tracebacks with
error messages appropriate to some external caller, or possibly log
the exception an
I really wish gmail picked up the mailing list as a default reply-to address...
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From: Karl Knechtel
Date: Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie naive question ... int() throws ValueError
To: Devin Jeanpierre
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:11 AM
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
> I'm not talking about unexpected exceptions. I'm saying, if I expect
> invalid input for int, where should I go to find out how to deal with
> said invalid input properly? How do I know that int raises ValueError
> on failure, and not, for
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> There are times when you want to catch all exceptions, though.
> Top-level code will often want to replace exception tracebacks with
> error messages appropriate to some external caller, or possibly log
> the exception and return to some pr
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Unlike in Java, a function's list of things it can throw isn't part of
>> its signature. Instead of trying to catch every possible exception,
>> it's generally best to simply let e
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Unlike in Java, a function's list of things it can throw isn't part of
> its signature. Instead of trying to catch every possible exception,
> it's generally best to simply let exceptions propagate unless you KNOW
> you're expecting them.
H
Thank you all for your help.
Greatly appreciated.
John
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> I believe that a MemoryError instance is pre-allocated for just this
> scenario.
Ah, wise move. It's one of those largely-imponderables, like figuring
out how to alert the sysadmin to a router failure.
ChrisA
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Hmm. What happens if the interpreter can't construct a MemoryError exception?
I believe that a MemoryError instance is pre-allocated for just this
scenario. You can see it in the result of gc.get_objects().
>>> [x for x in gc.get_objects
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Am 11.05.2012 17:51, schrieb Terry Reedy:
>> If the domain of a function is truly all Python objects, it cannot raise
>> an error. I believe id(x) is such an example.
>
> Even id() can raise an exception, for example MemoryError when you a
Am 11.05.2012 17:51, schrieb Terry Reedy:
> If the domain of a function is truly all Python objects, it cannot raise
> an error. I believe id(x) is such an example.
Even id() can raise an exception, for example MemoryError when you are
running out of memory.
Christian
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On 5/11/2012 1:55 AM, John Terrak wrote:
I couldnt find anywhere in the documentation that int() can throw a ValueError.
I checked the "The Python Language Reference", and the "The Python
Standard Library " to no avail.
Did I missed something?
To add to Chris' answer:
If the domain of a funct
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:55 PM, John Terrak wrote:
> I couldnt find anywhere in the documentation that int() can throw a
> ValueError.
> I checked the "The Python Language Reference", and the "The Python
> Standard Library " to no avail.
> Did I missed something?
Unlike in Java, a function's li
Hi
Sorry for such a naive question.
I couldnt find anywhere in the documentation that int() can throw a ValueError.
I checked the "The Python Language Reference", and the "The Python
Standard Library " to no avail.
Did I missed something?
So here is the question - if it is not in the documentati
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