exceptions are supposed to be exceptional, darn it This feeling is at odds with what is generally considered idiomatic Python, for better or worse. Upthread B

exceptions are supposed to be exceptional, darn it This feeling is at odds with what is generally considered idiomatic Python, for better or worse. Upthread BiteCode mentioned EAFP. See, for example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/idiomatic-python-eafp-versus-lbyl/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/idiomatic-python-eafp-... (It's certainly not unanimous. Guido himself is on the record as saying EAFP isn't better than LBYL, but in most of the Python I've cruised through these last umpteen years [that wasn't some other language written in Python], I've certainly seen an overall preference for EAFP. Naturally YMMV.)