Interest check in some delicious syntactic sugar for "except:pass"

[Tim Chase]

Oren Elrad wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is any support (tepid better than none) for the
> following syntactic sugar:
> 
> silence:
> ........ block
> 
> ------------------------->
> 
> try:
> ........block
> except:
> ........pass

The general response to "except: pass" from the Old Ones on the 
python list (and those younger ones who tend to prescribe good 
style) is a fairly immediate "don't use bare excepts".  So 
endorsing this "silence" syntax would be tantamount to condoning 
bare excepts.  I'm not sure you'll find much support.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.python.org+%22bare+excepts%22

(I've had problems with Google finding all posts to c.l.p on 
m.p.o recently, so this may only be a recent representative sample)

-tkc