[Python-Dev] PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 February 2014 11:35, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just as PEP 308 introduced a means of value-based conditions in an
>>> expression, this system allows exception-based conditions to be used
>>> as part of an expression.
>>
>> Great work on this Chris - this is one of the best researched and
>> justified Python syntax proposals I've seen :)
>
> Agreed - given the number of differing opinions on python-ideas, it's
> particularly impressive how well the debate was conducted too.

On that subject, I'd like to thank everyone involved in the
python-ideas discussion, and particularly Steven D'Aprano, Rob Cliffe,
and Andrew Barnert; it was an amazingly productive thread, getting to
nearly four hundred emails before seriously meandering. And even then,
it mostly just started looping back on itself, which isn't surprising
given that it was so long - anyone not majorly invested in the topic
won't have read every single post.

ChrisA