Why no 'elif' in try/except?

[Greg Ewing]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> Ok, so why elif exists in the first place at all? It's redundant.
> It can be replaced by 'else: if' and more indents.
> 
> Answer: convenience, to avoid those indents.

The convenience is worth the extra complexity in
this case, because it's quite common to have long
sequences of nested if-elses, and without it you'd
quickly run out of screen width.

But I can't imagine long sequences of nested
try-except-else-ifs turning up very often...

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