On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:35:45 -0700, Phlip wrote: > Exceptions are very dangerous by themselves, because if you don't trap > them just right they can cause side-effects.
Huh? If you don't trap them just right, the cause a stack trace, which is a side-effect I suppose. But it's an *intended* side-effect, since the alternative would be a core dump (or worse, an incorrect program that *doesn't* crash). This is a good thing! -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list