[Python-Dev] GeneratorExit inheriting from Exception (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 19 02:50:13 CET 2006

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

The situation (in Py3k) I was thinking is when people see this code:

except: # something and want to change it so to get a name to the exception object. I think many could get confused and write: except Exception, e: # something

If except clauses are changed to use "as", then as long as we're still allowing bare excepts, that could become

except as e: ...

Greg

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