On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 02:52:59 +1100 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > > While I like the general concept, I agree that it looks too much like a > > crunched statement; the use of the colon is a non-starter for me. I'm sure > > I'm not the only one whose brain has been trained to view a colon in Python > > to mean "statement", period. This goes against that syntactic practice and > > just doesn't work for me. > > > > I'm -1 with the current syntax, but it can go into the + range if a better > > syntax can be chosen. > > We bikeshedded that extensively on -ideas. The four best options are: > > value = (expr except Exception: default) -0.5 > value = (expr except Exception -> default) -0.5 > value = (expr except Exception pass default) -1 (looks terribly weird) > value = (expr except Exception then default) +0.5 But I'm aware it requires reserving "then" as a keyword, which might need a prior SyntaxWarning. Regards Antoine.
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