It seems like, for this to work, "group" would have to become a keyword.  This would play havoc with a lot of existing code.  I can't tell you how many times I've used the identifier "group" in my code, particularly when dealing with regular expressions.

Even making it a soft keyword, a la "await" in 3.5, would lead to ambiguity:

group = KeyboardInterrupt

try:
    while True:
        print("thou can only defeat me with Ctrl-C")
except group as error:
    print("lo, thou hast defeated me")


/arry

On 10/6/21 2:12 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
What do the PEP authors think about `except group`?  Bikeshedding aside, that’s still the best alternative I’ve seen.  It’s unambiguous, self-descriptive, and can’t be confused with unpacking syntax.

-Barry

On Oct 5, 2021, at 11:15, sascha.schlemmer--- via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> wrote:

I agree that *(E1, E2) looks like unpacking, how about

except *E1 as error: ...
except (*E1, *E2) as error: ...

even better would be if we could drop the braces:
except *E1, *E2 as error: ...
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