Object-oriented philosophy

Fri Sep 7 16:08:48 EDT 2018

On 2018年09月07日 14:51, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> On 2018年09月06日 16:00, MRAB wrote:
>> On 2018年09月06日 21:24, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

>> A word of advice: don't use a "bare" except, i.e. one that doesn't
>> specify what exception(s) it should catch.

> In another case where I had a "bare exception", I was using it to see if
> something was defined and substitute a default value if it wasn't. Have
> I cleaned this up properly?
>> try
> id = xmlmodel.attrib['name']
> except KeyError:
> id = "constant power"

Never mind! After I continued testing, I realized that the above
should have been written as:
 if 'name' in xmlmodel.attrib:
 id = xmlmodel.attrib['name']
 else:
 id = "constant power"
<facepalm>
-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Always use apostrophe's and "quotation marks" properly.