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[Python-Dev] PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 16:04:05 CET 2014 
On 22 February 2014 00:59, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The deferral currently has this snippet:
>>
>> """In order to ensure compatibility with future versions, ensure that
>> any consecutive except operators are parenthesized to guarantee the
>> interpretation you expect."""
>>
>> That's not a reasonable expectation - either the parentheses have to
>> be mandatory as part of the deferral, or else multiple except clause
>> support needs to be listed as rejected rather than deferred.
>
> I've spent the better part of the last hour debating this in my head.
> It's basically a question of simplicity versus future flexibility:
> either keep the syntax clean and deny the multiple-except-clause
> option, or mandate the parens and permit it. The first option has, in
> my own head, the stronger case - this is designed for simplicity, and
> it wouldn't be that big a deal to completely reject multiple except
> clauses and simply require that the

Yep, moving multiple exceptions to the "Rejected subproposals" section
would work for me.

Cheers,
Nick.

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