[issue20381] Argument Clinic: expression default arguments broken

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings added the comment:

It's considered bad form to catch Exception.  We should catch the minimum necessary.  If there are exceptions we forgot, people will complain and then we'll add those.

Also, I want to make sure (if possible) that the value round-trips correctly through eval and repr. We need to repr the value, and if it doesn't round-trip properly the user needs to know.

On the other hand, I'm okay with starting with bad=False and going from there.  The previous block (with DetectBadNodes()) already does that.  Hang on for a patch.

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