On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > Exceptions are *exceptional*, not "errors" or "unexpected". They are > exceptional because they aren't the "normal" case, but that doesn't mean > they are surprising or unexpected. Are you surprised that your "for x in > range(1000)" loop comes to an end? Of course you are not -- it is > completely expected, even though less than 1% of the iterations are the > last loop. The end of the sequence is EXCEPTIONAL but not UNEXPECTED. >
Sorry if my word choice was confusing- I was trying to point out that in Python, you don't test errors for your typical conditions, but for ones that you know still exist but don't plan on occurring often. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
