Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > Well, nice perspective. > > It's a valid consideration, sound theory > but poor practicality according to me.
On the contrary: It is absolutely the right and only way to do it. > It you view it like this then between the moment > we press run or enter key on the terminal, > our Python interpreter might get deleted. Yeah, but by your logic you'd have to check the existence of /usr/bin/python each time before you run it. > Though it's nice to go in and catch exceptions, > if you have a long operation upcoming it might be nice > to see if your key element is present. That is true, but you still must make sure that your long operation fails in a controlled manner if the necessary ressource becomes unavailable in the meantime. > Checking by exceptions is what the snippet > i shared does. But we check for the ability to do it > before we start. Nothing wrong with checking before. > Of course, it can change in the seconds that follow. But it's too much pure > logic at work. No. It's the correct way of doing it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
