Throwing in another +1 for `except group`. 

It's explicit, doesn't introduce new punctuation and avoids confusion with unpacking.

Regards,
Ammar

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 3:31 AM Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 19:42:29 +0200
Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:
>
> -1
>
> If I could read the vertical line as a pipe character, the expression would read "except or E as e".
> But I can't read it that way anyway. Instead, all I see is a lowercase EXCEPTL.
>
> My idea is this:
>
> try:
>     ...
> except group E as e:
>     ...
> except group E1, T2 as e:
>     ...
>
> Should be doable given the magical match-case contextual keywords precedent. This looks nice and is explicit, since you will always get an ExceptionGroup instance under `e`.

+1.  This is much more helpful to the reader than the cryptic
asterisk.

Regards

Antoine.


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