[Python-ideas] exception based conditional expression, similar to if-else conditional expression

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:53:33 am Ron Adam wrote:
> An additional note, the when you view an exception object in the
> console it is bracketed by the less than and and greater than signs.
>  Maybe there is a way to use those in a manner that is consistent
> with the string repr() returns.

Lots of things have a repr() which includes < and > signs, including 
repr() itself.

>>> print repr
<built-in function repr>

Also new style classes and instances, types, functions, methods, etc. 
Exceptions are printed with < > signs because exceptions are subclasses 
of object. There's nothing specifically "exception-like" about the use 
of < and > in the repr of exceptions.


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Steven D'Aprano