[Python-ideas] Improving Catching Exceptions

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 23.06.2017 03:02, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
>> How about something like this?
>>
>>    try:
>>        val = bah[5]
>>    except IndexError:
>>        # handle your expected exception here
>>    else:
>>        foo(val)
>
> That is the kind of refactor to which I alluded in the paragraph 
> above.  Doing that a lot tends to obscure the core logic of the code, 
> hence the desire for something more succinct requiring less internal 
> code fiddling.

And depending on how complex bha.__getitem__ is, it can raise IndexError 
unintentionally as well. So, rewriting the outer code doesn't even help 
then. :-(

Regards,
Sven
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