[Python-Dev] syntax misfeature (exception) (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sat Jan 20 19:17:37 CET 2007

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote: [snip]

It's not a question, it's a critique. I believe this is a misfeature since it's so easy to make this mistake.

And it is going away with Py3k. Making it go away for Python 2.6 would either allow for two syntaxes to do the same thing, or would require everyone to change their except clauses. Neither is very desireable (especially if writing code for 2.6 makes it not work for 2.5).

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