[Python-ideas] except expression

[David Mertz]

While I'm growing to like the '->' operator, at least better than the colon
that just looks wrong to me; I would defend Chris' characterization of it
as "new."  That is, the symbols exist as function annotations already, but
the current use is not as an *operator*, so that's technically true.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:55:58PM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> >
> > On 2/19/2014, 8:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > >Advantages of the arrow include ->
> > I would refrain from introducing a new operator here,
> > especially '->'.
>
> It's not new. It's used in annotations:
>
> py> def func(a, b) -> "Return result":
> ...     return "something"
> ...
> py> func.__annotations__
> {'return': 'Return result'}
>
>
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