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Author rhettinger
Recipients cool-RR, rhettinger
Date 2014-07-03.21:21:53
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Why?  Is there any known use case?

The IndexError exception is commonly used for control flow.  Slowing down the instantiation to add an index that no one really needs would be a waste.   This exception has been around for 20+ years -- if they were an actual need, we would have known by now.  To my eyes, this appears to be gratuitous feature creep.
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