[Python-ideas] except expression

[Greg Ewing]

Philipp A. wrote:
> hmm i still don’t like the colon. everywhere else in python, it means 
> “new block follows”

No, it doesn't. There are at least two existing exceptions,
lambdas and slice expressions.

> and i’m sure nobody here wants to allow the following?
> 
> |value = hovercraft() except EelsException:
>    remove_eels()
>    no_eels  #this is assigned to “value” if we have too many eels
 >
> neither should we introduce a colon that /can’t/ be followed by a block.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that. The colons in lambdas
and slice expressions can't be followed by blocks either,
and nobody seems to have difficulty with that.

-- 
Greg