`... except ... with ...` more closely mirrors the inline if-else syntax, which I think is the idea, and it doesn't use a colon. 

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 6:29 PM Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe@btinternet.com> wrote:


On 06/08/2020 23:14, Steele Farnsworth wrote:
> I have wanted this sort of syntax before but assumed it wasn't
> feasible and never considered how I'd want it to look. One possibility
> that wasn't mentioned in Chris's earlier PEP is this:
>
> `value = func() except Exception with default`
Er, how is this different from
     (value = func() except Exception: default)
which is the PEP 463 syntax?
>
> Though you'd almost certainly want to use a more specific exception.
True.