[Python-Dev] Py3k: Except clause syntax

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Mon Mar 20 13:03:44 CET 2006


    Skip> There seem to be other places where Python is beginning to require
    Skip> parens even though they aren't strictly necessary to resolve
    Skip> syntactic ambiguity.

    Guido> In the style guide only, I hope.

    Alex> Technically, I believe the first place where this did not apply
    Alex> was list comprehensions, ...

This was the instance I was thinking of, but it was far enough back that I
didn't remember if it was for readability or disambiguation.

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