[Python-Dev] containment checking

[Glenn Linderman]

On 3/19/2010 4:58 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Glenn Linderman<v+python<at>  g.nevcal.com>  writes:
>    
>> >  
>> >  If there's a bug in your __eq__ method, it may or may not raise an
>> >  exception, which may or may not get you wrong containment results.  But
>> >  it 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.