[Python-Dev] PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions

[Jan Kaliszewski]

23.02.2014 19:51, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> I see a risk of interfering with in-place assignment operators, e.g.
>
>     x /= y except ZeroDivisionError: 1
>
> might not do what one could expect, because (as I assume) it would 
> behave
> differently from
>
>     x = x / y except ZeroDivisionError: 1
[snip]

Please note that:

     x /= y if y else 0

also behaves differently from

     x = x / y if y else 0

Anyway, enclosing in parens would make that expicit and clear.

Cheers.
*j