Interesting Use of Try/Except Statement

[shohtime]

pwp-capstones/JoeKeepers_murder_mystery_program/murder_mystery_finished.ipynb

Lines 143 to 146 in ae45536

	" try:\n",
	" frequency_table[word] += 1\n",
	" except:\n",
	" frequency_table[word] = 1\n",

This is an interesting use of a try/except statement to access a dictionary's values. Although I must admit that it's clever, I can't say I'm a fan. Beyond the scope of this course, you learn that a try/except statement is relatively costly in terms of efficiency compared to a simple if statement, especially when an exception is actually raised (as it is in this case many times). You should save such a statement for when it is necessary, and instead use built-in functions for dictionaries, such as .get() here.

[jwkeepers]

Thank you for your comments, so noted.