Working around a lack of 'goto' in python

[Stephen Horne]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:34:03 +0100, gabor <gabor at z10n.net> wrote:

>the name 'exception' immediately means (for me at least) some kind of
>error condition.... 
>
>maybe if they had a different name, it would be easier to use them also
>by non-error-conditions.

But we can't use 'error'. If we did, of course we could use it for
exceptional non-errors, but people would expect it to mean something
exceptional, so they wouldn't want to use it for frequent errors.

;-)


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Steve Horne

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