It's hard to overstate how "normal" a non-match is. A typical program might examine thousands of strings to identify the ten that match a pattern. Exceptions shouldn't be used for cases that are in no way exceptional. On Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 7:27 PM Greg Ewing <gcewing@snap.net.nz> wrote:
On 23/10/23 1:36 am, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
The *re* module is a black swan, because most of stdlib raises exceptions on invalid arguments or not being able to deliver.
Most of the time, failure to match an re is not a programming error. Often it's perfectly normal. Sometimes it's the result of invalid user input, but that's the fault of the user, not the programmer.
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