[Python-ideas] except expression

[Greg Ewing]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> The colon in there breaks the basic Python concept of having
> colons end headers which start a new block of statements:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html

That section is talking about statements. The construct
we're discussing is an expression, so it wouldn't be
bound by the same rules.

And there are at least 3 existing uses of colons in
expressions, so ending headers is not the *only* use
of colons.

-- 
Greg