[Python-ideas] except expression

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Ethan Furman writes:
>
>  > > Thank you, yes. I'll add that message and move the whole idea to the
>  > > rejected section.
>  >
>  > Careful how you word that.  "Rejected" makes it sound like it won't
>  > work, not that it will but is not the best way.
>
> Nope.  "Rejected" means a decision was made.  It doesn't imply anything
> about the reason for the decision.  If you think it does, that's your
> problem.  Chris's usage was perfectly fine in the context of python-dev
> practice.

And by the way, reasons for decisions are often going into the PEP
itself; when I make a quick comment on list about a rejection, I won't
repeat everything that I've said there, so you'd need to check the
draft PEP for the reasoning.

ChrisA