On May 22, 6:15 pm, Karlo Lozovina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because when you expect exception to occur on something like 0.01% of > cases, and you have 4 or 5 exceptions and the code to test for each > conditions that cause exceptions is quite long and burried deep inside > some other code it's much better to do it this way ;). Too bad there's no > syntactic sugar for doing this kind of try-except loop.
I'm surprised your unit tests let it get to such a state... ;) How about something like this? retry, total_fail = False, False try: some_function() except SomeException: some_function2() some_function3() retry = True finally: if retry: try: some_function() except SomeException: total_fail = True Using 'finally' seems more explicit about it being part of the exception handling than using a loop construct. Actually, this is even more direct: try: some_function() except SomeException: some_function2() some_function3() try: some_function() except SomeException: raise SomeError -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list