[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Unifying try-except and try-finally

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > (to save typing, you can use an empty string or even
> > put quotes around the exception name, but that may
> > make it harder to spot the change)
>
> Yeah, but that will stop working in Python 3.0.

well, I tend to remove my debugging hacks once I've fixed
the bug.  I definitely don't expect them to be compatible with
hypothetical future releases...

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