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except clause syntax question

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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

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except clause syntax question Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com> - 2012-01-30 12:41 -0500
  Re: except clause syntax question Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2012-01-30 14:15 -0500
  Re: except clause syntax question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-31 00:00 +0000
    Re: except clause syntax question Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-30 19:25 -0500
    Re: except clause syntax question Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com> - 2012-01-31 08:57 -0500
      Re: except clause syntax question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-31 14:51 +0000
        Re: except clause syntax question Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com> - 2012-01-31 11:23 -0500
        Re: except clause syntax question Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 11:38 -0500
        Re: except clause syntax question Charles Yeomans <charles@declaresub.com> - 2012-01-31 12:29 -0500
        Re: except clause syntax question Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-01-31 08:56 -0800
    Re: except clause syntax question Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-31 19:12 -0500
    Re: except clause syntax question Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com> - 2012-01-31 19:27 -0500
  Re: except clause syntax question Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2012-01-31 08:24 -0500
    Re: except clause syntax question Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com> - 2012-01-31 13:04 -0500
  Re: except clause syntax question Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-31 22:03 +0000
    Re: except clause syntax question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 11:53 +1100
      Re: except clause syntax question Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2012-01-31 23:39 -0500
    Re: except clause syntax question Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 18:09 -0700
    Re: except clause syntax question Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 18:12 -0700
    Re: except clause syntax question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 13:46 +1100

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