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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That guy was shitty at Python, then. Python is all about EAFP instead of LBYL.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eat ass fast paced instead of lay back your lettuce?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

"Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission" vs. "Look Before You Leap."

In other words, in Python you should just write the code to do the thing and then put an exception handler at the bottom instead of cluttering up your function with guard code everywhere.