Original poster here: Just for the record, my *original* post did include an explicit trapping of the ValueError exception. :)
My point is that the coaching offered by this forum does not always fall on deaf ears. Thanks for everyone's help on this and all the other posts in this forum. Regards, Malcolm In article <01aaa1da$0$20629$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Okay, but that surely falls under chapter 18 of the "Advanced Python > Programming for the Mars Rover" book rather than chapter 5 of "Newbies > Guide to Python". Well, sure, but this thread started out with my taking, ahem, exception to the statement, "never use bare excepts at all". I agree that doing so is not typical, and not the kind of habit that new programmers should form because it's not the kind of situation new programmers are likely to be involved in. But, "never" was too strong a word. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list