retry in try:...except:

[John J. Lee]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Dan Parisien wrote:

> Does something like this exist
>
> def getval(self, key)
>         try:
>                 return self.__keys[key]
>         except KeyError:
>                 self.__keys[key] = None
>                 retry #!!!!
[...]

For this particular case,

>>> foo={"eggs": 1}
>>> print foo.get("eggs")
1
>>> print foo.get("spam")
None

But maybe you had another example in mind that this doesn't apply to?


John