On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > While I like the general concept, I agree that it looks too much like a > crunched statement; the use of the colon is a non-starter for me. I'm sure > I'm not the only one whose brain has been trained to view a colon in Python > to mean "statement", period. This goes against that syntactic practice and > just doesn't work for me. > > I'm -1 with the current syntax, but it can go into the + range if a better > syntax can be chosen.
We bikeshedded that extensively on -ideas. The four best options are: value = (expr except Exception: default) value = (expr except Exception -> default) value = (expr except Exception pass default) value = (expr except Exception then default) Note that the last option involves the creation of a new keyword. Would any of the others feel better to you? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
