Re: [Python-ideas] exception based conditional expression, similar to if-else conditional expression

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:53:33 am Ron Adam wrote:

An additional note, the when you view an exception object in the console it is bracketed by the less than and and greater than signs.  Maybe there is a way to use those in a manner that is consistent with the string repr() returns.

Lots of things have a repr() which includes < and > signs, including repr() itself.

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print repr <built-in function repr>

Also new style classes and instances, types, functions, methods, etc. Exceptions are printed with < > signs because exceptions are subclasses of object. There's nothing specifically "exception-like" about the use of < and > in the repr of exceptions. -- Steven D'Aprano