"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well the basic idea is "treat what you've been passed as though it is > the type you wanted". When it's only you writing the code that's likely > going to be the case. When it's others, you have to be a little more > careful to catch the exceptions (except when you don;t bother, in which > case the users will have to understand the tracebacks). >
I grew up in an environment that believes in prevention, rather then after-the-fact fixing. That's why it's hard for me to delegate error checking tasks to exception, rather then assert - it just feel so...."nake". :=) Anyway, points taken. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
