On 4/10/21 6:23 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 9:20 PM Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com
<mailto:jcgob...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Therefore my vote is for requiring `except* E` and keeping `except
*E` as a SyntaxError.
You can't do that with our current lexer+parser.
I don't think it would be desirable in any case. The separation of
tokens into alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric is deeply embedded in
every Python programmer's brain by now, and we shouldn't mess with
it.
--
Greg
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