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[-] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

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

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Eat ass fast paced instead of lay back your lettuce?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 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.

this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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