On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Fernando Saldanha <fsald...@gmail.com> wrote: > Writing in other languages I usually check the type and values of function > arguments. In the Python code examples I have seen this is rarely done. > > Questions: > > 1) Is this because it would be "unpythonic" or just because the examples are > not really production code?
It's unpythonic. The normal thing to do is simply use the object you're given, and if something goes wrong, the exception will have a full traceback. And if you don't notice that it isn't what you expect, well, it probably didn't matter! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
