[Tutor] try..except - what about that ton of **Error statements?

[Dave Angel]

On 05/22/2013 03:03 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] try..except - what about that ton of **Error statements?
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>> On 23/05/13 02:09, boB Stepp wrote:
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>>>   I was not aware that hardware damage could be caused by poor
>>>   programming. I am curious; can you give some examples of how this
>>>   might occur?
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> There used to be a program that would let your harddisk "sing" a melody by letting it frantically spin. I always thought this was *not* a good idea, though I have never heard of accidents with it. ;-)
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I had a young lady working for me that was writing a printer driver, the 
kind that these days would be embedded inside the printer.  I believe it 
was a daisy-wheel printer.  It used a stepper motor which was stepped up 
gradually from zero to full speed and back again.  Anyway, she put a 
breakpoint in the code at the point where the carriage was ramped up, 
and the code stopped, but the carriage kept going, It almost made it 
through the outer wall of the printer - totalled.


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DaveA