[Zope-dev] ZEO cache instrumentation -- any takers?
Shane Hathaway
shane@zope.com
Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:12:47 -0400
Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Friday 04 Oct 2002 1:18 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>>To make it worse when this is sometimes done for a large stretch of
>>code, even though there are only a few specific spots where the
>>exception is expected.
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> The idiom of putting this long stretch of code into and 'else' block after the
> 'try' block is underused, and not just in Zope. I wonder why?
I think it's because its syntax is out of order. :-) Whenever I'm about
to write a "try...except...else" block, I really want to spell it
"try...else...except". This places the exceptional situation after the
common situation, where it should be. Unfortunately the word "else" has
too narrow a meaning to allow this, so I wouldn't recommend it actually
be done. :-)
Shane