Re: [Python-3000] Problem with grammar for 'except'?

2008-10-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
Someone please fix the PEP. There are very good reasons for *not* allowing "except X, Y:" to have a meaning -- if 2.x code somehow accidentally ended up in the 3.0 world without having been run through 2to3, it would silently perturb the meaning in the most confusing way. That's why the implementat

Re: [Python-3000] Problem with grammar for 'except'?

2008-10-05 Thread wesley chun
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [Brett] >>> I gave a talk last night at the Vancouver Python users group on >>> 2.6/3.0, and I tried the following code and it failed during

[Python-3000] A plus for naked unbound methods

2008-10-05 Thread Terry Reedy
I have seen a couple of objections to leaving unbound methods naked (as functions) when retrieved in 3.0. Here is a plus. A c.l.p poster reported that 2.6 broke his code because the addition of default rich comparisons to object turned tests like hassattr(ob, '__lt__') from False to True. Th