On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Oren Elrad <orenel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy all, longtime appreciative user, first time mailer-inner. > > I'm wondering if there is any support (tepid better than none) for the > following syntactic sugar: > > silence: > ........ block > > -------------------------> > > try: > ........block > except: > ........pass > > The logic here is that there are a ton of "except: pass" statements[1] > floating around in code that do not need to be there.
So, why exactly should the language /encourage/ unnecessary error silencing? (which is what the proposed sugar would do) > I appreciate any feedback Applicable rules of The Zen[1] that the proposal arguably violates: *Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. *There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com [1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
