On 3/17/17 13:24, Jeff Janes wrote:
> And isn't it unhelpful to have the pageinspect module throw errors,
> rather than returning a dummy value to indicate there was an error?
Even if one agreed with that premise, it would be hard to satisfy
reliably, because the user-facing pageinspect functions might reach into
lower-level code to do some of the decoding, which are free to error out.
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