buggy python interpretter or am I missing something here?

[me]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:17:29 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:

> 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.


Whatever...lighten up dude!