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

Rhodri James rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 3 19:11:26 EST 2010


On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:27:16 -0000, Oren Elrad <orenelrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy all, longtime appreciative user, first time mailer-inner.
> I'm wondering if there is any support (tepid better than none) for the
> following syntactic sugar:
> silence:
> ........ block
> ------------------------->
> try:
> ........block
> except:
> ........pass

-100

This catches Control-C interrupts, sys.exit(), subtle typos in the code,  
and sundry other errors that actually you *did* want to know about.   
Silence isn't so much golden as pyritic.

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses



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