Bare Excepts

[Steve Holden]

Victor Subervi wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au
> <mailto:ben%2Bpython at benfinney.id.au>> wrote:
> 
>     samwyse <samwyse at gmail.com <mailto:samwyse at gmail.com>> writes:
> 
>     > I inherited some code that used bare excepts *everywhere*.  There were
>     > about 4K lines of code, IIRC, and I think that they were more except
>     > clauses than elses.
> 
>     Visual Basic programmers will learn how to write “ON ERROR RESUME NEXT”
>     <URL:http://www.vbinfozine.com/a_onerror.shtml> in any language put
>     before them.
> 
> 
> Yet another example of children belittling others to make themselves
> feel important.
> beno
> 
So turn the mirror in yourself, and ask yourself why you just made that
comment? It takes all sorts to make a world, and we all need to run
along. Surely it's easier to ignore that kind of stuff than to
perpetuate it?

regards
 Steve
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