In article <d28975e8-6706-4515-9c9e-fb7f90775...@masklinn.net>, Xavier Morel <catch-...@masklinn.net> wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2009, at 00:22 , Jeff McAninch wrote: > > I'm new to this list, so please excuse me if this topic has been > > discussed, but I didn't > > see anything similar in the archives. > > > > I very often want something like a try-except conditional expression > > similar > > to the if-else conditional. > I fear this idea is soon going to extend to all compound statements > one by one. > > Wouldn't it be smarter to fix the issue once and for all by looking > into making Python's compound statements (or even all statements > without restrictions) expressions that can return values in the first > place? Now I don't know if it's actually possible, but if it is the > problem becomes solved not just for try:except: (and twice so for > if:else:) but also for while:, for: (though that one's already served > pretty well by comprehensions) and with:. I like this idea a lot. -- Russell _______________________________________________ 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
