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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21 Feb 2014, at 16:52, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> While I like the general concept, I agree that it looks too much like a
>> crunched statement; the use of the colon is a non-starter for me. I'm sure
>> I'm not the only one whose brain has been trained to view a colon in Python
>> to mean "statement", period. This goes against that syntactic practice and
>> just doesn't work for me.
>> 
>> I'm -1 with the current syntax, but it can go into the + range if a better
>> syntax can be chosen.
> 
> We bikeshedded that extensively on -ideas. The four best options are:
> 
> value = (expr except Exception: default)
> value = (expr except Exception -> default)
> value = (expr except Exception pass default)
> value = (expr except Exception then default)
> 
> Note that the last option involves the creation of a new keyword.
> 
> Would any of the others feel better to you?

What about (also mentioned in the PEP)?

  value = (expr except Exception try default)

This seems to read nicely, although “try” is at a completely different position than it is in the equivalent try statement. 

I like the general idea, but like Brett I don’t like using a colon here at all.

Ronald

P.S. Sorry if this way already brought up, I’ve browsed through most of the threads on this on -ideas and -dev, but haven’t read all messages.
> 
> ChrisA
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