Overuse of try/except/else?

[James Mills]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> These days I think I'd use a LateFunction (a facility of my own which is
> a lot like the futures module) which returns a callable when you submit
> a function; the worker thread runs the submitted function and catches the
> return value or raised exception. Anyone who calls the returned callable
> later gets the return value or the exception reraised as appropriate,
> so one can avoid the dangerous "catch everything and log" scenario.

I like this :) I guess you call this a Proxy Object although
your calling it a LateFunction seems more "fitting" :)

cheers
James

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