On Aug 20, 12:47 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rafe wrote: > > Again, this is probably too simple to help, but the only way to ignore > > certain types of exceptions, as far as I know, is to catch them and > > pass. > > e.g. this ignores type errors... > > > try: > > somethingBad() > > except TypeError, err: > > pass > > except Exception, err: > > raise TypeError(err) > > so what kind of code are you writing where *type errors* are not > considered programming errors? (catching them and proceeding is one > thing, but catching them and ignoring them?) > > I'd be really worried if I found that in a piece of source code I had to > maintain. > > </F>
I'm not it was just the first exception that came to mind... It is pretty rare that I would pass an exception in fact. Maybe as a last- resort test in some cases. - Rafe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
