Hi folks, just one note I'd like to dump here. We usually teach our newbies to catch exceptions as narrowly as possible, i.e. MyModel.DoesNotExist instead of a plain Exception. This works out quite well for now but the number of examples continue to grow where it's not enough. There are at least three examples I can name off the top of my head: 1) nested StopIteration - PEP 479 2) nested ImportError 3) nested AttributeError 1) is clear. 2) usually can be dealt with by applying the following pattern: try: import user except ImportError: import sys if sys.exc_info()[2].tb_next: raise Chris showed how to deal with 3). Catching nested exception is not what people want many times. Am I the only one getting the impression that there's a common theme here? Regards, Sven