[Python-ideas] Retrying EAFP without DRY

[Mike Meyer]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>> That using an LBYL idiom, or simply repeating yourself, means you
>don't need a loop says to me that it isn't really a loop.  Which is why
>using loop to write it feels wrong.
>The argument that it might be worth having dedicated syntax for a loop
>that runs 1 or 2 times is rather unconvincing when we don't even have
>dedicated syntax for a loop that runs 1 or more times (see PEP 315).

The argument isn't that we need a new syntax for a small set of loops, it's that the only ways to implement retrying after an exception leave a code smell.
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