"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 01:17 PM 1/20/2007, Josiah Carlson wrote: > > >Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[snip] > > > It's not a question, it's a critique. I believe this is a misfeature > > > since > > > it's so easy to make this mistake. > > > >And it is going away with Py3k. Making it go away for Python 2.6 would > >either allow for two syntaxes to do the same thing, or would require > >everyone to change their except clauses. Neither is very desireable > >(especially if writing code for 2.6 makes it not work for 2.5). > > With both, you can choose whether you'd rather your code be backward > compatible with 2.5, or forward-compatible with 3.0. So 2.6 has to > have both syntaxes.
If it's already been decided; great! - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
