try except and programming etiquette

Question

I'm making a GUI and I'm finding myself to be using a lot of try except statements. My question is, should I be redesigning my program to use less try except statements or is try except a good practice to be using in python programs? I like them because they're informative and make debugging, for me, easier. Just wondering what real developers think about it.

Thanks

Answer 1

One of Python's idioms is: It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. (Python Glossary, have a look at EAFP).

So it's perfectly acceptable to structure program flow with exception handling (and reasonably fast too, compared to other languages). It fits Python's dynamic nature nicely imho.