Raymond Hettinger writes: > 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.
Guido writes: > 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:. Explicit is better than Implicit. I think that in newly written code "except Exception:" is better (more explicit and easier to understand) than "except:" Legacy code that uses "except:" can remain unchanged *IF* the meaning of "except:" is unchanged... but I think we all agree that this is unwise because the existing meaning is a tempting trap for the unwary. So I don't see any advantage to keeping bare "except:" in the long run. What we do to ease the transition is a different question, but one more easily resolved. -- Michael Chermside _______________________________________________ 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
