On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Even if a PEP is rejected, it becomes the best reference if someone > requests the same or a similar feature some months or years later. > Rejected PEPs explain almost how the Python language was designed. > > For thanks Chris, and I hope that it's not too hard for you to accept > the fact that your "inline try/except" idea is maybe not as good as > you expected :-)
One of the original goals of the PEP was to get everything written down. I actually didn't have any sort of strong opinion on the matter until part way in; effectively, I had to first convince myself, then try to convince others :) So it's not hard to accept that the idea isn't such a good one. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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