On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Lele Gaifax <l...@metapensiero.it> wrote: > Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Let me ask it like this: >> How can i avoid using try: except: for checkign the date but instead check >> it with an if statement: > > Let me answer this way: you can't, without resorting to the simple > helper functions I wrote in my previous message. > > Why do you dislike that solution?
This is very similar to the previous threads that the OP has engaged in recently. He asks a question of the form "How can I do X, without using facility Y" where Y is the obvious way to do X. http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/ferouscranus.htm My days of not taking him seriously are certainly coming to a middle. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
