Cost of exception handlers in Python
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In another question, the accepted answer suggested replacing a (very cheap) if statement in Python code with a try/except block to improve performance.
Coding style issues aside, and assuming that the exception is never triggered, how much difference does it make (performance-wise) to have an exception handler, versus not having one, versus having a compare-to-zero if-statement?
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