Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 15:46:45 CET 2014

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On 22 February 2014 00:37, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> This goes against anything I understand about how exceptions should and
> should not be used.

I think you're thinking of a language that isn't Python - we use
exceptions for control flow all over the place (it's how hasattr() is
*defined*, for example).

Cheers,
Nick.

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