How about "except_group", or "exceptgroup"? That's definitely not ambiguous,
and can certainly work as a soft keyword.
On 06/10/2021 11:06, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
> It seems like, for this to work, "group" would have to become a keyword.
> This would play havoc with a lot of existing code. I can't tell you how many
> times I've used the identifier "group" in my code, particularly when dealing
> with regular expressions.
>
> Even making it a soft keyword, a la "await" in 3.5, would lead to ambiguity:
>
> group = KeyboardInterrupt
>
> try:
> while True:
> print("thou can only defeat me with Ctrl-C")
> except group as error:
> print("lo, thou hast defeated me")
>
>
> //arry/
>
> On 10/6/21 2:12 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> What do the PEP authors think about `except group`? Bikeshedding aside,
>> that’s still the best alternative I’ve seen. It’s unambiguous,
>> self-descriptive, and can’t be confused with unpacking syntax.
>>
>> -Barry
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I agree that *(E1, E2) looks like unpacking, how about
>>
>> except *E1 as error: ...
>> except (*E1, *E2) as error: ...
>>
>> even better would be if we could drop the braces:
>> except *E1, *E2 as error: ...
>>> [...]
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