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Re:Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer ... by woadwarrior01 on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:04AM (#18383362)
Case in point: Python’s StopIteration exception, which is raised to indicate iterator exhaustion. A lot of efficiency can be gained by not invoking Python’s heavy exception handling machinery for this.
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