"SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
>> * I'm not saying you can't use "except:". I'm not advocating a >> semantic change to the meaning of "except:". (I am suggesting >> that KeyboardInterrupt should not inherit from StandardError.) >> I'm saying that the recommended usage for application >> programmers should be to avoid it. Guido> Sorry. I told you I hadn't read the thread the first time Guido> around. SM> So, do we agree on this point? There's definitely precedence for that, and I think you could argue that a KeyboardInterrupt isn't an error the same way SystemExit and StopIteration aren't errors. I worry about backwards compatibility, but I'll add this to the UPITS[1] Exception PEP (Does anybody else lament the lack of an inheritance diagram in the exceptions module documentation?) -Barry [1] Uber Py-In-The-Sky