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| Subject | Re: except clause syntax question |
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| From | Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com> |
| Date | 2012-01-30 13:56 -0500 |
| References | <E1A3D6A5-CCE8-4D87-82E0-938159D0CE61@declareSub.com> <4F26D9C7.6020109@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.5220.1327949774.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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
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