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  Re: except clause syntax question Aaron <aaron.l.france@gmail.com> - 2012-01-30 18:56 +0100

#19607 — Re: except clause syntax question

On 01/30/2012 06:41 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
> To catch more than one exception type in an except block, one writes
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> except (A, B, C) as e:
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> I'm wondering why it was decided to match tuples, but not lists:
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> except [A, B, C] as e:
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> 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".
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> Charles Yeomans
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Then,  semantically, shouldn't it be a set?

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