"Brian van den Broek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm a hobbyist and still learning, but the claim the try/except is > "lousy Python" surprise me a bit. I think it wasn't the use of try/except as such. It's more that if you're the developer you ought to know whether variables are defined or not. It might be a sign you're using global variables more often than would be considered good style in Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list