Re: [boost] [python] can I stop iteration without exception being thrown?

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-11 12:01:20

Bruno Lalande <bruno.lalande <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Beside the fact that I completely agree with you (but probably because
> I'm a C++ developer), you have to be aware that Python and C++
> philosophies differ dramatically. On this precise point, while C++
> developers are attached to a well-defined balance between return codes
> and exceptions, Python has pushed the use of exceptions to an extreme.
> This often leads to things that are considered as worst practices
> and/or beginner mistakes in other languages, like the fact of stopping
> an iteration by throwing. In Python, the assertion that "exceptions
> should only handle errors" is unfortunately false.

I guess it's ok. To the point where Boost.Python starts to throw C++ exceptions.
Why does library chosen to follow python practice and not C++ is unclear to me.

Gennadiy