[Tutor] finally without try or except

[Tino Dai]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Brett Ritter <swiftone at swiftone.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Tino Dai <oberoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, but that would involve surrounding the entire method with a try
> except
> > finally block. I was
> > told by the Python-Guru-In Residence that shouldn't emulate Java code in
> > Python, and that was
> > generally bad programming practice (no flame war intended)
>
> It is true that you should use the idioms of each language in their
> domain.  That doesn't mean you should ignore language features
> entirely.  Wrapping everything in a single try/finally to handle this
> exception is as intended and not emulating the Java style of wrapping
> everything everywhere (be that good or bad).
>
>
I just remember that there was a performance hit or something for doing
that.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?



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> Brett Ritter / SwiftOne
> swiftone at swiftone.org
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