On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Depending on who the users will be, I might just not worry about it until an > exception is raised. If you try to protect against everything that you might > do wrong, you are on the road to madness, as the protection code might also > be buggy. (Too much testing has the same problem ;-).
I'd go further. Do you believe that you can write code to catch every bug you might make? If so, you are naive and probably haven't spent much time programming yet :) And if not, then you must acknowledge that bugs WILL happen; therefore you will need to cope with them after the event. So rather than trying to prevent them all, just improve your means of coping, and you'll accomplish the same end with much less trouble. At this point I could go off into a lengthy discussion of philosophy and original sin (not "original SYN", which is a different thing altogether), but anyone who's ever written bug-handling code will understand what I mean already :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
