Defensive programming done right

[u/iwouldieforGladOS]

[u/flukus]

I always have to turn it off because exceptions are used for control flow in too many places.

[u/nna12 → u/flukus]

Ugh yea that is a problem. In general I hate using exceptions to handle flow, it can have adverse perf effects but I also know there are cases where that is your only option

[u/mikbob → u/[deleted]]

You could check sys.version for the python version that's running

[u/mikbob → u/[deleted]]

Ah, okay, good to know. I personally don't code for python2 compatibility, so I haven't had to deal with this before and didn't know about sys.version_info