On 22 February 2014 00:50, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:28:01 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Neither of these objections addresses the problems with the status quo, >> though: >> >> - the status quo encourages overbroad exception handling (as >> illustrated by examples in the PEP) > > I don't get this. Using the proper exception class in a "try...except" > suite is no more bothersome than using the proper exception class in > this newly-proposed construct.
Not overbroad in the sense of catching too many different kinds of exception, overbroad in the sense of covering too much code in the try block. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
