On 12/2/2010 9:56 AM, Harishankar wrote: > 3. Philosophically I think exception handling is the wrong approach to > error management. I have never grown up programming with exceptions in C > and I couldn't pick up the habit with python either. Did I mention that I > detest try blocks? try blocks seem ugly and destroy code clarity at least > in my view. And enclosing single statements under separate try blocks > seem to add a lot of clutter.
Whereas lots of nested if statements to test that multiple errors have all not occurred is a model of clarity? This sounds to me like a prejudice that will harm your Python development. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list