Discussion on: Best practice for Python returns

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Replies for: Hi, and thanks for the reply :) Yeah, I was thinking of using a dictionary in a similar fashion, where one key-value pair is used to indicate if th...

this is preferable

try:
   data = get_one({"name":"joe"})

except ConnectionError:
   # handle a ConnectionError

else:
   # if no exceptions were raised then the data is presumed to be good
   do_something_with(data)