On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:07 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:56 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:06 AM Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> > >> Nick and I are now on the same page, so I don’t think we *have* to have > a formal SC vote. > > > > > > OK, I agree. Let's remove TargetScopeError from the PEP and from the > implementation. Since that makes three SC members in favor the motion > passes. I hope Chris A (the third PEP author) can live with this -- in his > last post on the subject that I can find he was still in favor of a > subclass of SyntaxError (in any case he's outvoted by the other two PEP > authors :-). > > > > I was at the time, but it was only a weak recommendation. And having > seen other examples (eg a global statement doubling a function > argument) that just use SyntaxError, I'm totally fine with just making > it SyntaxError with a useful text message. > > So go for it! Remove TargetScopeError. > > (That said, though: it may be helpful to have some metadata attached > to the exception, like the name that's being assigned to. Not sure how > easy/hard that'll be.) > We don't do that for any of the other scope-related SyntaxErrors, so I don't think it's important. (Again, this is not an error people are likely to make unless they are *looking* for edge cases of the walrus operator.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him/his **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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