[Python-Dev] containment checking

[Glenn Linderman]

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.

Glenn

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