Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Ant enlightened us with: > >> try: >> assertion = callable.is_assertion >> except: >> pass >> > > Try to make a habit out of catching only the exceptions you know will > be thrown. Catching everything generally is a bad idea. In this case, > my bet is that catching AttributeError is enough. > > What about doing exception kind of like a C switch statement with a default case:
try: do_something() except TypeError: fix_something() except: print "Unknown error, you are doomed" traceback.print_exc() #something to print the traceback exit_gracefully() Is this frowned upon? You still handle the error and you know where it happened and what happened. Anything wrong with this? I don't like the idea of my system crashing for any reason. -carl -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
