On Friday 04 Oct 2002 1:18 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: > To make it worse when this is sometimes done for a large stretch of > code, even though there are only a few specific spots where the > exception is expected. The idiom of putting this long stretch of code into and 'else' block afte= r the=20 'try' block is underused, and not just in Zope. I wonder why?