On 8/13/06, Scott Dial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I think the logic of swallowing the TypeError is completely > reasonable.
Then you haven't debugged enough Python programs. Swallowing an exception of *any* kind is always a trap waiting to shut when you least expect it, because you have no control over what other operations might cause an exception. E.g. when you write try: hash(x) except TypeError: # apparently x is not hashable then you're also swallowing any type errors in the computation of a legitimate hash function. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
