[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee ping@lfw.org
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:49:28 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

Ka-Ping Yee writes: > ValueError: too many elements on left side of ".." operator ... > ValueError: at most two elements permitted on left side of ".."

Looks like a SyntaxError to me. ;)

I would have called "\xgh" a SyntaxError too, but Guido argued convincingly that it's consistently ValueError for bad literals. So i'm sticking with that. See the thread of replies to

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