Oct. 6, 2021
5:48 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 9:01 AM Brandt Bucher <brandtbucher@gmail.com> wrote:
Another option (to remove the ambiguity) could be to move the “group” after the expression. Bonus points for reading more clearly:
except MemoryError group as e: … except (KeyError, IndexError) group as e: … except some + expression group as e: …
Argh. This would be very easy to overlook. As the senior author of PEP 654 I am going to go with "except*". Since it was shown that "except group" has ambiguous edge cases the proposals have gotten worse, which to me is a good sign that we need to stop. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-c...>