Comparison with False - something I don't understand

[Steve Holden]

On 12/2/2010 11:42 PM, Harishankar wrote:
> One of the reasons why I feared to do this is because I need to know each 
> and every exception that might be thrown by the function and litter my 
> top-level code with too many exception handlers.
> 
You appear to be suffering from the delusion that all exceptions must be
caught and handled. This is far from being the case. But still, better
to have your top-level code "littered with exception handlers" than to
have your functions "littered with if statements".

Quite often it's impossible for the function to know what needs to be
done when a specific conditions arises, in which case (presumably) you
have to return some error code and test for that ...

regards
 Steve
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