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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 19 02:49:57 CET 2006

Wolfgang Langner wrote:

try: something except NameError or OtherError as e:

I don't see that this really helps anything, since it's no clearer how "or" and "as" should bind than it is how "," and "as" should bind.

Also it has the disadvantage that

except E1 or E2 as e:

would not be equivalent to

except (E1 or E2) as e:

On the other hand, in

except E1, E2 as e:

the E1, E2 is just a tuple expression, so it's exactly equivalent to

except (E1, E2) as e:

Greg