Hello, Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: > > That said, it seems you are proposing taking the logical consequence > of making except handlers properly nested and scoped,
It's exactly that. > I would be okay as well with restricting bare raise syntactically to > appearing only inside an except block, to emphasize the change in > semantics that was started when we decided to make the optional > variable disappear at the end of the except block. > > This would render the following code illegal: > > def f(): > try: 1/0 > except: pass > raise Please note as well that: def f(): try: 1/0 except: pass return sys.exc_info() would return (None, None, None). Actually, it already does with the patch I proposed for #2507, and the test suite runs fine after fixing a problem in doctest.py. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
