Reducing Assumptions in Scripts: Rye Pipelines vs Try-Catch Approach
The Elegant Script Problem We’ve all written them — beautiful, minimal scripts that work perfectly… until they don’t. The problem? Assumptions are the mother of all screw-ups. Elegant scripts are built on a foundation of assumptions that the world will behave exactly as expected. This post isn’t about Python being “bad” at error handling—it’s about how different error models affect the shape of small, real-world scripts as assumptions disappear. Let’s take a real-world example: a script that downloads a PDF from an API. ...