buggy python interpretter or am I missing something here?

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/26/2014 10:46 PM, me wrote:
>
> [...]  I'm satisfied that the except: syntax yields
> undefined behavior, and in my mind it shouldn't be
>  syntactically allowed then.

Two points:

   1) Python is not C++

   2) You asked for help; you received it.  Coming back
      with an attitude of "Python must be broken, I'll
      work around it" is going to quickly lose you the
      support of those willing to help again.