> not have an answer. Is it a better practice to have a function raise > an exception on error, so that the error can be caught; or return a > status code indicating that the function was unsuccessful?
Exceptions are nearly always better. For some of the reasons why, see my tutorial topic on Error Handling Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
