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

On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:45:55PM -0000, Thomas Grainger wrote:

now that python2.7 is EOL, it might be worth resurrecting this syntax [...] except E1, E2, E3 as e:

What advantages will this new syntax bring us? Will it allow us to do things that we can't currently do? When would you use it in preference to the existing syntax? By this I mean both under what circumstances, and at what time (tomorrow? in a year? in ten years?). Is there an aim beyond saving two characters? -- Steve