TkNeo wrote:
On May 2, 1:58 pm, Nick J Chackowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
TkNeo wrote:
WHAT ?
This is crazy
Crazy like a fox?
a = [1, 2, 3]
try:
a.index(99)
except:
a.append(99)
finally:
print a.index(99)
MY question: which exception should I actually be catching there?
** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**
ofcouse try catch is going to work but in ideality the index function
should return a -1 and no way in hell crash.
-1 doesn't make any sense. How could you tell the difference between the value
being there and actually being -1 and it not being there and Python returning
-1? Raising an IndexError is the proper behavior. You should catch the
IndexError if you are going to be indexing into an list with arbitrary indexes.
-Larry
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