At 01:17 PM 1/20/2007, 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).
With both, you can choose whether you'd rather your code be backward compatible with 2.5, or forward-compatible with 3.0. So 2.6 has to have both syntaxes. > - Josiah > >_______________________________________________ >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/pje%40telecommunity.com _______________________________________________ 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