I'm with Raymond here. On 8/15/05, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Brett] > > This obviously goes against what Guido last said he > > wanted, but I hope I can convince him to get rid of bare 'except's. > > -1 on eliminating bare excepts. This unnecessarily breaks tons of code > without offering ANY compensating benefits. There are valid use cases > for this construct. It is completely Pythonic to have bare keywords > apply a useful default as an aid to readability and ease of coding. > > +1 on the new BaseException > > +1 on moving NotImplementedError, SystemExit, and KeyboardInterrupt. > > -1 on replacing "except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit)" with "except > TerminatingException". 1) Grepping existing code bases shows that these > two are almost never caught together so it is a bit silly to introduce a > second way to do it. 2) Efforts to keep the builtin namespace compact > argue against adding a new builtin that will almost never be used. 3) > The change unnecessarily sacrifices flatness, making the language more > difficult to learn. 4) The "self-documenting" rationale is weak -- if > needed, a two-word comment would suffice. Existing code almost never > has had to comment on catching multiple exceptions -- the exception > tuple itself has been sufficiently obvious and explicit. This rationale > assumes that code readers aren't smart enough to infer that SystemExit > has something to do with termination. > > > > Raymond > > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org >
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