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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:55:13 +1000
Subject: Re: open() and EOFError
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> if you always break everything out to keep exception-catching scope as
>> narrow as possible, you begin to lose readability in other ways.
>
> I've begun to wonder if there might exist a new, easier-to-read
> try-except syntax.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0463/ anyone? :)

ChrisA