On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:28 AM <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Have a look at PEP 463, which looks into this in some detail. > > I wish this PEP had gained more traction. Sooner or later, everyone wants an > expression form of a try/except. > > When it comes to expressing "in the event of this exception, I want this > default", exception expressions read much more nicely than an equivalent > try/except block. > > Also, new syntax would keep the rest of the language clean so that don't end > up adding dozens of get() methods. Or r having us expand function signatures > with default arguments, like min() and max() functions for example. > > It would be great if this PEP were to be resurrected. >
I'd be happy to work on it again if anyone else has suggestions for better justifications - see the rejection notice at the top of the PEP. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TN6MWJ3Y7VYHGPJUS7FKRDNXEYST2W5D/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
