[Python-Dev] "with" use case: replacing a file

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:23 PM 5/13/2005 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >>P.S. The points regarding non-local flow control in Joel Spolsky's 
> latest Joel
> >>on Software article (especially the links at the end) may have had 
> something to
> >>do with my change of heart. . .
> >
> >
> > I'm a big fan of Joel. Care to share the specific URL for the article
> > you're referring to?
> >
>
>Sorry about that (I was in a hurry this morning). It was here:
>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

"Wrong" is an excellent title for that article; it's completely wrongheaded 
about exceptions.  :)  Great basic idea (make wrong code look wrong), but 
for all practical purposes the actual specific advice in the article is 
only meaningful for C, where you can't create real types and there are no 
exceptions.  In Python, there are *much* saner solutions to his strawman 
problems.