Weird try-except vs if behavior

[James Matthews]

Hi,

I have this code http://gist.github.com/627687 (I don't like pasting code
into the mailing list). I am wondering why the try except is taking longer.
I assume that if the IF statement checks every iteration of the loop (1000
times) shouldn't it be slower?


James

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