[Python-3000] self-contained exceptions

[Guido van Rossum]

On 1/8/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I wasn't aware that things like "except T, (a, b, c):" were
> possible until I started work on this patch; I thought <name> was all
> you _could_ use.

And, given the secial semantics for this position, I would support
changing the syntax to *only* allow a single simple name there -- not
even x.y.z. Thsh should handle 99.9% of existing code anyway.

(And yes, if someone wants to add the 'as' keyword at the same time
that would be great!

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