[Python-Dev] What's the status of PEP 505: None-aware operators?

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>> I would *not* add any spelling for an explicit bare-except equivalent.
>> You would have to write:
>>
>>   val = name.strip()[4:].upper() except Exception as -1
>
>
> Wouldn't that really need to be this instead, for a true 'except:' equivalence:
>
>   val = name.strip()[4:].upper() except BaseException as -1
>

Read the rejected PEP 463 for all the details and arguments. All this
has been gone into.

ChrisA