2.2 features

[John W. Baxter]

In article <mailman.996687544.25805.python-list at python.org>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at zope.com> wrote:

> > except exc isa OverflowError, ZeroDivisionError:
> >     pass
> 
> I find 'isa' ugly (it's not an existing word and unless you're from a
> very specific culture you won't recognize it).  I agree that except
> has this flaw, but I don't want to tie solving it to this discussion
> (i.e. I don't want to talk about it in *this* thread).

And besides, the particular example should be ...exc isan Overflow,...
for many of us.

  --John