On Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7:53:31 AM UTC+5:30, Dave Angel wrote: > On 04/10/2015 09:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 05:31 am, sohcahtoa82 wrote: > > > >> It isn't document because it is expected. Why would the exception get > >> caught if you're not writing code to catch it? If you write a function > >> and pass it a tuple of exceptions to catch, I'm not sure why you would > >> expect it to catch an exception not in the tuple. Just because the tuple > >> is empty doesn't mean that it should catch *everything* instead. That > >> would be counter-intuitive. > > > > Really? I have to say, I expected it. > > > > > > I'm astounded at your expectation. That's like saying a for loop on an > empty list ought to loop on all possible objects in the universe.
To work, this analogy should also have two python syntaxes like this: "Normal" for-loop: for var in iterable: suite "Empty" for-loop: for: suite [Sorry Steven… didn't notice you were agreeing with me… a rare privilege 😁 ] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
