[Python-Dev] syntax misfeature (exception)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Jan 21 15:12:54 CET 2007


At 01:17 PM 1/20/2007, Josiah Carlson wrote:

>Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>[snip]
> > It's not a question, it's a critique.  I believe this is a misfeature since
> > it's so easy to make this mistake.
>
>And it is going away with Py3k.  Making it go away for Python 2.6 would
>either allow for two syntaxes to do the same thing, or would require
>everyone to change their except clauses.  Neither is very desireable
>(especially if writing code for 2.6 makes it not work for 2.5).

With both, you can choose whether you'd rather your code be backward 
compatible with 2.5, or forward-compatible with 3.0.  So 2.6 has to 
have both syntaxes.



>  - Josiah
>
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