Why no 'elif' in try/except?

[Boyd Roberts]

"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak at knm.org.pl> a écrit dans le message news: slrn.pl.9hnbs9.4l5.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda...
> I don't understand only one thing. Why it is spelled 'elif' and not
> 'else if'?

may have been influenced by 'elif' from the Bourne shell as well as the fact that it's
simpler to parse, given it's one token and not two (less look ahead).