[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Ka-Ping Yee writes:
>  >     ValueError: too many elements on left side of ".." operator
> ...
>  >     ValueError: at most two elements permitted on left side of ".."
> 
>   Looks like a SyntaxError to me.  ;)

I would have called "\xgh" a SyntaxError too, but Guido argued
convincingly that it's consistently ValueError for bad literals.
So i'm sticking with that.  See the thread of replies to

    http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-August/014629.html


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