Mark Donald wrote:
Guido already said this, but yes, something did change in 3.0: unlike the 2.x series, the raise statement in 3.x only accepts instances of BaseException, so having both an "except BaseException:" clause and a bare "except:" clause becomes redundant.
Ah, apologies... I need to update myself.
'uncatch' to subsequently execute the else clause is still going to be impossible, but I don't have a real-world need for that as yet.
If you really find yourself doing this kind of exception interrogation a lot, you may find it easier to do it in the __exit__ method of a context manager. Those are *always* invoked regardless of how the with statement ends and you can then do whatever flow control you like based on the type of the first argument (and whether or not it is None). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------