[Python-ideas] Re: Add a mechanism so that multiple exceptions can be caught using `except E1, E2, E3:`

On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 9:48 AM Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com> wrote:

now that python2.7 is EOL, it might be worth resurrecting this syntax as discussed in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/#id13

eg, python 3.11 could support ``` try: ... except (E1, E2, E3) as e: ... ```

as equivalent to

``` try: ... except E1, E2, E3 as e: ... ```

-1 I think you really mean you want Python to accept the form without the parenthesis. I don't like it because it's easy to read that as except E1, E2, (E3 as e): and I don't think saving two characters is worth the disruption caused by people being able to write Python 3.11 code that won't work in Python 3.10. Many people would not adopt the new syntax for that reason. --- Bruce