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Duh- reading comprehension fail- cheers. Same question though, there is still something that makes me uncomfortable about using exceptions as an expected-case c

Duh- reading comprehension fail- cheers. Same question though, there is still something that makes me uncomfortable about using exceptions as an expected-case control flow structure (as in, this is expected to catch an exception once every for loop call). Is that something I should get over, and should I write more code that uses exceptions in this fashion?

newen 8y ago
Python's official implementation is very slow and they don't care about performance. I wouldn't try to take any lessons from the way Python is implemented.
NikkiA 8y ago
You are correct that this use of exceptions is very bad code smell.