REPOST: Re: Who needs exceptions

[Courageous]

>It also makes more experienced programmers more productive, even if 
>they never use it (IMHO) as errors below the level of the program 
>being written never go unhandled *and* unreported, as in C.

Indeed. Exceptions fit well with Python, in part because they
allow the programmer to write more syntactically compact code
than they would if they had to use an alternative.

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