Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> That's broken.
>
> Imagine that somewhere in main() the following is called:
>
> D = {"a": "apple", "b": "bicycle", "c": "cat"}
> print D["aardvark"]
>
> Your code now prints "That number is way too big!". That's not good.
>
> try...except blocks should, as a general rule, cover only the smallest
> amount of code that they need to.
Hi Steven,
Point taken and I think your solution better addresses the root of the
problem. However, the OP said he wanted to print out that error message
whenever the interpreter came across any IndexError. So I gave him what
he wanted. I guess he needs to be more careful what he wishes for ;)
-Farshid
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