On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > I understand you are arguing that a try expression will lead to people just > doing `something() except Exception: None` or whatever and that people will > simply get lazy and not think about what they are doing with their > exceptions.
Exactly. > Unfortunately they already are; that shipped sailed when we > didn't eliminate bare except clauses in Python 3 (hopefully we can change > that in Python 4). We should have a page somewhere tracking a py4k "wishlist". :) > > I personally don't think that making people type out a try statement is > going to lead to that much thought compared to an expression. I'm willing to > bet most IDEs have a code snippet for creating a try statement so people are > already not using the extra typing of a full-blown statement with at least > two clauses as a way to stop and think about what they are doing. > > I'm totally fine restricting this proposal to not having any concept of > exception catching or finally clause: it just replaces the simplest > try/except clause possible (while requiring an exception be specified). That > takes care of the common control flow use case of exceptions while requiring > more thought for more complex cases. +1 -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
