[Python-ideas] except expression

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/18/2014 12:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> Conclusions: The need for chained exception catching might not be so
> great after all, and even the 'as' keyword isn't as (heh heh)
> important as I thought it was.

I wouldn't base that conclusion on the lack of seeing the new syntax in the stdlib.  The stdlib works -- going through 
and changing working code to use the new syntax is at best code churn, and at worst (and more likely) introducing new bugs.

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~Ethan~