On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:56 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> While we're talking about compelling use cases, does anyone have an > actual, concrete use case for the proposed "except *" feature that's > strong enough to justify new syntax? > > I'm fine with having ExceptionGroup as a built-in type. I'm not fine > with adding new syntax that will apparently be used only in rare > circumstances. > > Can code that's aware of the possibility of getting an ExceptionGroup > not simply catch it as a normal exception and then pick it apart? Do > we really need a whole new piece of machinery for this? > As Irit already wrote, the code to do this correctly is increasingly subtle and without special syntax it becomes too easy to do it wrong. Also note that multiple `except *` clauses can all run, since they handle (disjunct) different subsets of the group. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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