To catch more than one exception type in an except block, one writes except (A, B, C) as e:
I'm wondering why it was decided to match tuples, but not lists: except [A, B, C] as e: The latter makes more sense semantically to me -- "catch all exception types in a list" as opposed to "catch this single thing composed of three exception types". Charles Yeomans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list