[Python-ideas] except expression

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Feb 17 22:40:33 CET 2014


Chris Angelico wrote:
> Do you mean that there may not be a comma, or that commas must be
> surrounded by parens?

Commas would need to be surroounded by parens.

> Imagine if the exception
> list isn't literals, but comes from somewhere else (which is perfectly
> legal). How do you eyeball it and see that this is now a new except
> clause?

I'm not a big fan of this idea either. It seems
to me that wanting more than one except clause is
going to be *extremely* rare, so it's not worth
going out of our way to make it super-concise.

-- 
Greg


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