[Python-ideas] Re: for ... except, with ... except

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm not sure I understand the desire to catch every possible exception right where it occurs. I've never felt this need somehow.

This is my feeling too. I can't remember having a need for such needle-sharp targeting of exception catching, and if I ever did, it would be such a rare thing that I wouldn't mind writing things in a different way to achieve it. -- Greg