On 12 March 2014 15:21, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> > While I'm +0 on the idea, I'm -1 on the syntax; >> >
> I just don't like having a >> > colon in an expression. >> > lambda: is an expression and has a colon in it. It would be weird to use except: without a colon IMHO, because we are already used to write except: with colon everywhere else... Which is why there are alternatives listed, and the best four of them >> (including the proposed one) ranked. >> > > `value = (expr except Exception then default)` would be fine with me. > Do we really need to introduce a new keyword 'then' ? I'm +1 on the original proposal (expr except Exception: default) -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro Gambit Research "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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