On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> PEP 463 proposes a short syntax for this use case:
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0463/
>
> I'm not sure what became of it.
Not quite; PEP 463 is about the case where you then want a different
value instead. I'm fairly sure the PEP
On 10/14/14 10:08 AM, Leonardo Giordani wrote:
Would it be feasible to propose a short syntax like this?
pass SomeException:
somecode
where the above example would become:
pass IndexError:
lst[0] = lst[0] + 1
I could not find if such a syntax has been already discussed elsewhere,
so plea
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Leonardo Giordani
wrote:
> a lot of times the following pattern pops out in Python code:
>
> try:
> somecode
> except SomeException:
> pass
>
> Converting the code to a non-EAFP version, for example
>
> if len(lst) != 0:
> lst[0] = lst[0] + 1
This could be just
Hi all,
a lot of times the following pattern pops out in Python code:
try:
somecode
except SomeException:
pass
A very simple example could be if you want to process a list that may be
empty
def process_list(lst):
try:
lst[0] = lst[0] + 1
except IndexError:
pass
or in more complex cases
