The question was about which style to *recommend* (a la PEP-8). On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:03 AM Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:24 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 9:20 PM Jonathan Goble <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. >> > > Then what is the purpose of this thread? I understood from the OP that the > question was which to allow and which to prohibit. If it's impossible to > require either or prohibit either because the lexer/parser can't tell the > difference, then it's going to end up as a never-ending style argument just > like C pointers, so what are we even discussing? (Other than an entirely > different syntax, of course, which now seems like the logical way to go if > we can't enforce a single way to do it with the original proposal.) > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(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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