R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: On Sun, 3 May 2009 at 08:55, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > I am just wondering why we want to be quite different from how many > other languages are approaching the issue. Sure enough, we can use a > try: construct, but it kind of defeats the principle of least > astonishment by being different from the rest on this issue.
Only if you imagine that the principal applies to expectations inherited from other languages. In a Python context, which is what the principle actually refers to, it would be astonishing if the error were to be silently ignored. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1443504> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
