[Python-ideas] Implied try blocks

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:15:05 -0400
Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> What if we allowed this to be implied and except/else blocks bound to
> the previous
> statement? A try block would be an optional form, and mostly left for
> multi-block try's
> 
> r = some_single_statement()
> except TypeError:
>     print "oh no!"
>     raise OhNoException()
> else:
>     p = prepare(r)
>     print "I got", p

Saving one line and four non-whitespace characters?
-1 from me.

cheers

Antoine.