[Python-Dev] Compilation of "except FooExc as var" adds useless store

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:18 AM Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> Maybe someone can propose a code comment to explain this instead? I agree that this doesn't need to be explained in the language spec, but I don't see any harm in a comment where the opcodes are emitted to explain why it is the way it is .
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No BPO as yet but here's a tracker issue to get started.

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11448

ChrisA