[Python-Dev] containment checking

[Glenn Linderman]

On 3/19/2010 5:20 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
> 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.

Should I really believe that there are no try/except clauses in the 
Python source code (nor their C equivalent, if (errno == blahblahblah) 
... )?

I mean, I haven't read very much of the source code... but that 
statement makes me want to download and grep...
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