[Python-ideas] except expression

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 07:43:08AM +0000, Paul Moore wrote:

> Just as a data point - with my eyesight and the monitor
> resolution/font I use, I can't even *see* the colon without squinting.
> There's an old principle "new syntax should not look like grit on
> Tim's monitor" that probably applies here :-)


I sympathise, but you already have to deal with dicts, slices, and 
lambda, and with the exception (pun intended) of lambda, they're likely 
to be much more common than except-expression.

-- 
Steven