python-dev Summary for 2004-02-01 through 2004-02-29

[Josiah Carlson]

> Why would you need to dynamically add exceptions? My mind
> is beginning to boggle trying to find a use case for this.

I could only see it as a pseudo-optimization of the below...

if catch_some_a:
     try:
         #stuff
     except TypeError:
         #do stuff
elif catch_some_b:
     try:
         #stuff
     except ValueError:
         #do stuff
elif catch_all:
     try:
         #stuff
     except TypeError, ValueError:
         #do stuff

But who would do this?  I have no idea.

  - Josiah