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On 17 Dec 2009, at 16:35, Rick Edwards wrote:

> 2009/12/17 Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk
>
>>
>> If the case is likely that bar will be in attributes you could do do
>> the 'do it, then ask forgiveness' route:
>>
>> for foo,bar in attribute_data:
>>    try:
>>        attributes[bar].append(foo)
>>    except KeyError:
>>        attributes[bar] = [foo,]
>>
>
> Tsk, using exception handling to control logical flow like this,  
> shame on
> you!

http://wiki.sheep.art.pl/Ask%20for%20Forgiveness

-Matt

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