[Python-ideas] except expression

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> phone = "Unknown" if except KeyError else addressbook[name]
>
>
> -42. My brain gets totally derailed when it hits "if except";
> it parses that bit as a syntax error.

Yeah, and it reads backwards anyway. I don't particularly like that syntax.

ChrisA