On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Nick Coghlan<ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Option 2: > x = float(string) except ValueError: float('nan') > op(float(string) except ValueError: float('nan')) > > This has the virtue of closely matching the statement syntax, but > embedding colons inside expressions is somewhat ugly. Yes, lambda > already does it, but lambda can hardly be put forward as a paragon of > beauty.
+1 on this option as it resembles the standard try/except block enough it would be a quick edit to convert it to one if later you realize you need to catch more exceptions* * I recommend NOT allowing multiple exceptions in this form eg x = float(string)/var except ValueError, ZeroDivisionError, ...: float('nan') as it will start to reduce readability quickly _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com