python-dev Summary for 2004-02-01 through 2004-02-29

John Roth newsgroups at jhrothjr.com
Fri Mar 19 08:21:36 EST 2004


"Roger Binns" <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote in message
news:oh2qi1-mvc.ln1 at home.rogerbinns.com...
> > There is nothing wrong with adding tuples.  I would expect that normally
> > the number of exceptions is somewhat small, so the overhead of tuple
> > addition is not that bad...
>
> Yes, it is only done once per startup and then potentially once per
> opening a device with a broken driver.  I was just trying to answer
> someone wondering why you would ever want to change the exceptions
> caught at runtime.

Which you did very nicely. Thank you.

John Roth

> Roger
>
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