except clause syntax question

[Charles Yeomans]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Aaron wrote:

> On 01/30/2012 06:41 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
>> To catch more than one exception type in an except block, one writes
>> 
>> except (A, B, C) as e:
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>> I'm wondering why it was decided to match tuples, but not lists:
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>> except [A, B, C] as e:
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>> The latter makes more sense semantically to me -- "catch all exception types in a list" as opposed to "catch this single thing composed of three exception types".
>> 
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>> Charles Yeomans
>> 
>> 
> 
> Then,  semantically, shouldn't it be a set?

Why, I suppose that would make even more sense.


Charles Yeomans