On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Aaron wrote: > On 01/30/2012 06:41 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > Then, semantically, shouldn't it be a set?
Why, I suppose that would make even more sense. Charles Yeomans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
