[Python-ideas] except expression

[Jan Kaliszewski]

13.02.2014 13:50, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Some of the specific syntactic proposals:
>
>     x = op() except default if Exception
>     x = op() except default for Exception
>     x = op() except default from Exception
>     x = op() except Exception return default
>
>     x = op() except exc.attr if Exception as exc
>     x = op() except exc.attr for Exception as exc
>     x = op() except exc.attr from Exception as exc
>     x = op() except Exception as exc return exc.attr

Please append also my proposal from another branch of this thread:

> 1. Simple Variant:
>
>     get_it() except (IndexError: None)
>
> 2. Variant with 'as':
>
>     get_it() except (OSError as exc: exc.errno)
>
> 3. Variant with multiple exceptions:
>
>     get_it() except (FileNotFound: 0,
>                      OSError as exc: exc.errno,
>                      Exception: None)

Cheers.
*j