On 8/23/05, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest version of PEP 348 still proposes that a bare except clause > will default to Exception instead of BaseException. Initially, I had > thought that might be a good idea but now think it is doomed and needs > to be removed from the PEP.
If we syntactically enforce that the bare except, if present, must be last, would that remove your objection? I agree that a bare except in the middle is an anomaly, but that doesn't mean we can't keep bare except: as a shorthand for except Exception:. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
