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Subject: Re: except clause syntax question
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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
>>=20
>> except (A, B, C) as e:
>>=20
>> I'm wondering why it was decided to match tuples, but not lists:
>>=20
>> except [A, B, C] as e:
>>=20
>> 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".
>>=20
>>=20
>> Charles Yeomans
>>=20
>>=20
>=20
> Then,  semantically, shouldn't it be a set?

Why, I suppose that would make even more sense.


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