On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:56 PM Jonathan Grant
<jonathanallengr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Instead of writing this:
>
> ```
> try:
> return my_dict[“a”][“b”][“c”][“d”]
> except:
> return “some default”
> ```
>
> Or this
> ```
> return my_dict.get(“a”, {}).get(“b”, {}),get(“c”, {}).get(“d”, “some default”)
> ```
>
> I propose we allow for an inline exception handler, like `eor`:
> ```
> return my_dict[“a”][“b”][“c”][“d”] eor “some default”
> ```
>
> This works very similar to what we already have with `or`, and makes code
> much more compact and readable.
Have a look at PEP 463, which looks into this in some detail.
ChrisA
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