On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > You seem to be making the > classic mistake of thinking that exceptions are something to avoid:
Far from it. You've extrapolated a lot more than what I actually said, and I completely agree with everything you wrote. I was explaining EAFP as I see it, not advocating it for all circumstances. Although since you bring it up, I find that the LBYL crowd tends to be more prone to exception avoidance, e.g. returning None on a failure rather than raising an exception, whereas the EAFP crowd seems more likely to just let the original exception propagate up. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
