On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:57:34PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Ahh, okay. So it's safe in the sense that it can't accidentally leak a
> confusing exception. Unfortunately a lot of people are going to assume
> that it means "will always give a useful return value". Definitely
> worth being very very clear about the semantics.
What you name the function is up to you :-)
> And it's really not the ideal semantics here anyway. What you actually
> want is ValueError if the dict is empty.
Your wish is my command:
mynext = exception_guard(catch=StopIteration, throw=ValueError)(next)
--
Steven
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