Alice isn't forced into using anything. You appear to be forgetting that raising exceptions as part of program flow is standard and pythonic. It's OK to disagr

Alice isn't forced into using anything. You appear to be forgetting that raising exceptions as part of program flow is standard and pythonic. It's OK to disagree with that, but as it's part of the language and part of the python modus operandi let's not go out of our way to illustrate our dislike.. Just use another language