On Sunday 21 January 2007 05:17, Josiah Carlson wrote: > Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > It's not a question, it's a critique. I believe this is a > > misfeature since it's so easy to make this mistake. > > And it is going away with Py3k. Making it go away for Python 2.6 > would either allow for two syntaxes to do the same thing, or > would require everyone to change their except clauses. Neither > is very desireable (especially if writing code for 2.6 makes it > not work for 2.5).
Note that we do plan to add "except a as b" to 2.6 - we're just not ripping out the old way of doing it. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
