Op 2005-02-09, Diez B. Roggisch schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Now although this behaviour was surprising after somethought >> I think I may understand why things go wrong, but I certainly >> don't understand the result I got. I would think an error like: >> >> TypeError: call() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) >> >> would have been more appropiate. >> >> >> Am I missing something? >> Is it a bug? >> Maybe both? > > Maybe I'm missing something - but I exactly get that error if I don't use > that try: except: of yours:
Ah, yes, the penny dropped. The try: except where there because originally there were other statements I wanted to test and I didn't want the raise exception by the inc(-2) stop the script. I completely forget to consider it would also catch the error I was expecting. Thanks. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
