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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Sun Jan 21 05:51:26 CET 2007

On Sunday 21 January 2007 05:17, Josiah Carlson wrote:

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).

Note that we do plan to add "except a as b" to 2.6 - we're just not ripping out the old way of doing it.

Anthony

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