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While in Java its indeed a bad practice to use Exceptions for flow control (mainly because exceptions force the jvm to gather resources (more here)), in Python you have 2 important principles: Duck Typing and EAFP. This basically means that you are encouraged to try using an object the way you think it would work, and handle when things are not like that.

In summary the only problem would be your code getting too much indented. If you feel like it, try to simplify some of the nestings like lqc suggested in the suggested answer above.

While in Java it's indeed a bad practice to use exceptions for flow control (mainly because exceptions force the JVM to gather resources (more here)), in Python you have two important principles: duck typing and EAFP. This basically means that you are encouraged to try using an object the way you think it would work, and handle when things are not like that.

In summary, the only problem would be your code getting too much indented. If you feel like it, try to simplify some of the nestings, like lqc suggested in the suggested answer above.

While in Java its indeed a bad practice to use Exceptions for flow control (mainly because exceptions force the jvm to gather resources (more here)), in Python you have 2 important principles: Duck Typing and EAFP. This basically means that you are encouraged to try using an object the way you think it would work, and handle when things are not like that.

In summary the only problem would be your code getting too much indented. If you feel like it, try to simplify some of the nestings like lqc suggested

While in Java its indeed a bad practice to use Exceptions for flow control (mainly because exceptions force the jvm to gather resources (more here)), in Python you have 2 important principles: Duck Typing and EAFP. This basically means that you are encouraged to try using an object the way you think it would work, and handle when things are not like that.

In summary the only problem would be your code getting too much indented. If you feel like it, try to simplify some of the nestings like lqc suggested in the suggested answer above.

While in Java its indeed a bad practice to use Exceptions for flow control (mainly because exceptions force the jvm to gather resources (more here)), in Python you have 2 important principles: Duck Typing and EAFP. This basically means that you are encouraged to try using an object the way you think it would work, and handle when things are not like that.

In summary the only problem would be your code getting too much indented. If you feel like it, try to simplify some of the nestings like lqc suggested

While in Java its indeed a bad practice to use Exceptions for flow control (mainly because exceptions force the jvm to gather resources (more here)), in Python you have 2 important principles: Duck Typing and EAFP. This basically means that you are encouraged to try using an object the way you think it would work, and handle when things are not like that.

In summary the only problem would be your code getting too much indented. If you feel like it, try to simplify some of the nestings like lqc suggested