On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:15:07 -0400
"Prasad, Ramit" wrote:
> >If you are using asserts for data validation, then your code is
> >broken. The caller can disable every single assert, and hence remove
> >your data validation, by simply passing a command line switch when
> >calling your program.
>
>If you are using asserts for data validation, then your code is broken.
>The caller can disable every single assert, and hence remove your data
>validation, by simply passing a command line switch when calling your
>program.
To be fair, there are plenty of situations where someone has enough c
Mac Ryan wrote:
I have to say - however - that even after a few years of python
development I seldom use exceptions that way: in fact I can only
remember having subclassed error classes once, when I wrote a library
that was intended to be used by third-parties (for the exact same
reasons that yo
On 28/09/11 10:23, Mac Ryan wrote:
I have to say - however - that even after a few years of python
development I seldom use exceptions that way: in fact I can only
remember having subclassed error classes once, when I wrote a library
that was intended to be used by third-parties (for the exact s
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:03:11 +0100
Alan Gauld wrote:
> Remember that when handling exceptions we should be trying
> to recover the situation not just bombing with an error message.
> Exceptions should not be thought of as purely about
> messages, they are opportunities to recover the situation w
On 28/09/11 04:34, lina wrote:
File 1 is:
3 C 1 CUR C19 10.200 12.0110
4 CR1 1 CUR C20 1 -0.060 12.0110
5HC 1 CUR H20 10.060 1.0080
File 2 is:
ATOM 2 H20 CUR 1 30.338 28.778 -6.812 1.
On 28/09/11 07:33, Mac Ryan wrote:
raise BaseException('Something is wrong here!')
Never raise BaseException directly!
**I would like to know more on the rationale behind this
guidelines, though.**
raise StandardError('This value should be True.')
does the job in a much more elegant
Excellent, thank you
and yes I need to work on how to catch and handle exceptions
Thanks again!
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM, bob gailer wrote:
> On 9/27/2011 11:18 PM, questions anon wrote:
>
> I would like to use user_input() to decide how to slice a list.
> This works fine until I try to
