[Python-Dev] GeneratorExit inheriting from Exception
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 19 02:50:13 CET 2006
Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> The situation (in Py3k) I was thinking is when people see this code:
>
> except:
> # something
>
> and want to change it so to get a name to the exception object. I *think* many
> could get confused and write:
>
> except Exception, e:
> # something
If except clauses are changed to use "as", then
as long as we're still allowing bare excepts, that
could become
except as e:
...
Greg
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