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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:46 AM, me <noone@all.net> wrote:
>
> In any case, thanks for the answers guys.  I'm satisfied that the except:
> syntax yields undefined behavior, and in my mind it shouldn't be
> syntactically allowed then.

It's not undefined, though; it is explicitly defined.  See my other
message, and here are a couple other places to skim through:
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/errors.html and
http://docs.python.org/2/library/exceptions.html

-- 
Zach