Christophe enlightened us with: > I don't think it's a good idea because when you place a try catch > block around a function call, you'll catch any exception thrown by > the function itself and not only the "cannot be called" exception.
That depends on the exception you're catching, doesn't it? Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list