On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:28 AM <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Have a look at PEP 463, which looks into this in some detail.
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> I wish this PEP had gained more traction. Sooner or later, everyone wants an expression form of a try/except.
>
> When it comes to expressing "in the event of this exception, I want this default", exception expressions read much more nicely than an equivalent try/except block.
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> Also, new syntax would keep the rest of the language clean so that don't end up adding dozens of get() methods. Or r having us expand function signatures with default arguments, like min() and max() functions for example.
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> It would be great if this PEP were to be resurrected.
>
I'd be happy to work on it again if anyone else has suggestions for
better justifications - see the rejection notice at the top of the
PEP.
ChrisA
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