On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Travis Parks <jehugalea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe I should give up on it, like you said. I am still familiarizing > myself with the paradigm. I want to make sure I am developing code > that is consistent with the industry standards. >
In Python, the industry standard is "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" - that is, let the exceptions happen. It's not worth the hassle of error-checking when the result of not checking an error is exactly the same thing. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list