I propose “exception tuple”, since syntactically and semantically it must
be a tuple. (Same as for isinstance() and issubclass().)

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 05:52 Thomas Grainger <tagr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's this bit:
>
> ```
>     except (A, B):
>            ^^^^^^
> ```
>
> bpo-43149 currently calls it an "exception group", but that conflicts with
> PEP 654 -- Exception Groups and except*
>
> ```
>
>    >>> try:
>    ...   pass
>    ... except A, B:
>    ...   pass
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>    SyntaxError: exception group must be parenthesized
> ```
>
> some alternatives:
>
> exception classinfo must be parenthesized (classinfo so named from the
> parameter to issubclass)
> exception sequence must be parenthesized
>
> see also:
>
> - https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24467#discussion_r628756347
> - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/
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