On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:47 PM, spir
On 02/13/2014 07:43 PM, Amber Yust wrote:
Actually. What if we just reused 'try'?
foo = bar() except BazException try 'qux'
This also leads naturally to chaining multiple possible fallbacks:
foo = bar() except BarException try baz() except BazException try None
I like it. Especially because 'try' already works with 'except'. (But note that 'try', like my proposal of 'then', normally introduces a block).
This strikes me as counterintuitive because it is inconsistent: 'bar()' is being tried, but does not follow 'try', while the others do. And then the 'try None' has no corresponding 'except'. Suggestion: an expression like foo = (try bar() except BarException) that defaults to None if the exception is caught. This could then be chained with 'or': foo = (try bar() except BarException) or (try baz() except BazException) as distinguished from foo = (try bar() except BarException) or baz() which does not do any exception handling for baz(). (Apologies if something like this has been proposed above; I could not find it from skimming the thread.) Nathan
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