[Python-bugs-list] Blank except block fails in try statement (PR#60)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Dan> When you have an empty except: block in a try statement, both
    Dan> MacPython 1.5.2b1 and Linux Python 1.5.2 report that you have
    Dan> invalid syntax.

That's neither a bug nor a feature.  It's a syntax error.  Blocks can't be
empty, hence the pass statement's raison d'etre:

    try:
	print "this is a test"
	raise(error)
    except:
	pass
    else:
	print "pleasent dreams"

    Dan> The easiest way to fix this is by adding a single line to the empty
    Dan> exception block:

And Bob's your uncle! ;-)

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