Not sure if you read my comment. You get the same behavior with a try block. And that's even assuming that you don't just get back gibberish which would be th

Not sure if you read my comment. You get the same behavior with a try block. And that's even assuming that you don't just get back gibberish which would be the common case. Note with the example if he didn't pointlessly parse out then reassemble the IP address in his "simplest program", he would have been outputting those #number# values instead of the IP addresses without catching the error.