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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon Jan 22 00:17:44 CET 2007

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 01:17 PM 1/20/2007, 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). With both, you can choose whether you'd rather your code be backward compatible with 2.5, or forward-compatible with 3.0. So 2.6 has to have both syntaxes.

If it's already been decided; great!

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