[Python-ideas] except expression

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/18/2014 05:34 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>> I disagree.  It is best to leave explicit selection of exceptions to catch
>>> outside of the expressions.  This is job for things like decimal or numpy
>>> fp contexts.
>>
>> I don't understand what relevance fp contexts have here.
>>

[snip nice examples of fp context]

Which is great for numpy et al, but useless for the rest of the Python world.

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~Ethan~