Steven many thanks for this useful hint!
I will modify my code.
Many thanks!
Regards
Karim
On 01/10/2011 11:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Karim wrote:
Thank you Steven, Modulok and Alan for your precious and detailed
explanations!
I understood that I must not overuse try-except statement and usually
when the exception could happen exceptionally.
By the way I have this piece of code using elementTree standard
module and according to Alan this is bad code I guess:
*try: devdb.setDescription(dev.attrib['description'])
except KeyError: pass
[...]
Whenever you have very similar code repeated many times, you should
consider factoring out the common code into a helper function.
Something like this:
def try_or_pass(key):
attr_name = 'set' + key[0].upper() + key[1:]
try:
getattr(devb, attr_name)(dev.attrib[key])
except KeyError:
pass
try_or_pass('description')
try_or_pass('symbolName')
etc.
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
