> So the Python script proposed in this article really just skips all error checking
Only if the programmer chooses to not handle exceptions, which is bad practice.
>and will die just the same as the hard unwrapped Rust version with the only benefit it actually produces a more user-friendly error and it doesn't look as ugly.
No, it won't die unless the programmer wants it to. In Python you can catch an exception and continue the operation in a different manner. In fact, it is common practice in a lot of Python libraries to use exceptions to determine the presence of data and act according to whether or not the exception occurred. If I'm not mistaken, I believe that this is common practice in most languages that utilize the exception pattern.
> I can't edit my reply anymore but the question was actually meant to be rhetorical rather than I really wanted an answer.
Well, you seem to not know a lot about exception handling in Python, so I hope I was at least a little helpful.
