[Python-Dev] Python in Unicode context (original) (raw)

Holger Krekel pyth at devel.trillke.net
Thu Aug 5 13:29:28 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

(It will also break code that creates a class used as an exception that doesn't derive from Exception, but those should be shot. :-)

Then i guess that searching down into a recursive structure and just raising an "i found it" result object up doesn't count as a use case in your book, right? It can avoid boilerplate code like return-if-not-None checks and I have used it for e.g. finding patterns in an AST-Tree.

cheers,

Holger


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