[Python-Dev] containment checking

[Michael Foord]

On 20/03/2010 00:19, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> 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.

Explicit by the programmer. That is what explicit means... Caught and 
silenced for you by Python is implicit.

Michael

>
> Glenn
>


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