[Python-ideas] except expression

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org>
writes:

> Ben Finney writes:
>  >     try:
>  >         response_text = request('http://whatever.com').text
>  >     except HttpError:
>  >         "Can't access data"
>
> This has incorrect semantics.  The correct semantics would be
>
>     try:
>         response_text = request('http://whatever.com').text
>     except HttpError:
>         response_text = "Can't access data"
>
> I assume.

You assume correctly; I wrote the above code too hastily. Thanks for the
correction.

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