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Matt Niznik: Python is nice and "raises" an exception. Other languages "throw" them.

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Heather Cronk: :-D

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Lewis Grasso: Segmentation Fault

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Matt Niznik: except is equivalent to catch is many other languages

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Matt Niznik: (It trips me up a lot)

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Matt Niznik: Looks like exceptions started with Lisp (in the 60s!) and I would wager C++ sort of normalized them

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Heather Cronk: In my experience, it's useful during code development to catch very little to see the many ways your code can fail and then decide what you want to catch and how you want to catch it

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Alan Brammer - NOAA Affiliate: >>> from pathlib import Path 
>>> mypath = Path("path/to/my/file")
>>> mypath.stat().st_size == 0 # True if empty

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Heather Cronk: os.stat can tell you how big a file is without opening

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Matt Niznik: ^^ That's what I'd do too

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Heather Cronk: same

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Matt Niznik: Lol I meant I'd do what Heather said but didn't notice Alan had a similar one

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Heather Cronk: it makes it hard for other people to run/debug your code when except is a blanket -- re-learned that one recently

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Wisnu Setiadi: Thank you!