[Tutor] Exception handling - syntaxerror?!

[Andrei]

Krishna wrote:
> When I have this piece of code in a function, it works fine. So is
> this some limitation of directly working out off the console?

It is indeed valid Python (you don't have to have empty lines after 
try-except in a real Python program).

> Seems the console supports complete code constructs only  I.e., I can
> have one complete try...except block, a if block etc., but not a bunch
> of constructs? Is my assumption correct?

That seems to cover it, one compound statement per >>>. (You can chain 
several statements in one line by using ';', e.g. ">>> print 6; print 5" 
will work just fine.

-- 
Yours,

Andrei

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