
On 3/19/2010 5:20 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
On 20/03/2010 00:19, Glenn Linderman wrote:
On 3/19/2010 5:18 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
will probably get you buggy results, somehow or another. That's what > design, code reviews, and testing are for. We'll have to "agree to disagree" then. If you want error silencing by default, Python is not the language you are looking for.
We can agree to disagree, if you like. But taken to the limit, the Zen you quoted would prevent the try except clause from being used.
No, that is what "unless explicitly silenced" means - you are proposing to silence them *without* an explicit try except clause.
Michael
Who, me? The containment checking code would contain the try/except, I was proposing.
Explicit by the programmer. That is what explicit means... Caught and silenced for you by Python is implicit.
Should I really believe that there are no try/except clauses in the Python source code (nor their C equivalent, if (errno == blahblahblah) ... )? I mean, I haven't read very much of the source code... but that statement makes me want to download and grep...