On 21 Feb 2014, at 16:52, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@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?
What about (also mentioned in the PEP)? value = (expr except Exception try default) This seems to read nicely, although “try” is at a completely different position than it is in the equivalent try statement. I like the general idea, but like Brett I don’t like using a colon here at all. Ronald P.S. Sorry if this way already brought up, I’ve browsed through most of the threads on this on -ideas and -dev, but haven’t read all messages.
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