[Python-Dev] Py3k: Except clause syntax (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Mar 17 03:22:17 CET 2006


"Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:441A0714.7040200 at canterbury.ac.nz...

Baptiste Carvello wrote:

what about

except with : a program dies "with" an error message, not "as" an error message. No. The exception object you're catching is the value, not something which has a value. I maintain that "as" is the correct word to use here.

Besides which, 'with' is a (new) main (compound statement) keyword while 'as' is always subordinate and denoting a name to be used in the sequel. And I also like using it to separate classes to be caught from name binding of instance.

tjr



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