Re: [Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Unifying try-except and try-finally

2005-05-06 Thread François Pinard
[Guido van Rossum] > I like the solution that puts a bare "raise" at the top of the except > clause. Yes. Clean and simple enough. Thanks all! :-) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Unifying try-except and try-finally

2005-05-06 Thread François Pinard
[Guido van Rossum] > [François Pinard] > > > It happens once in a while that I want to comment out the except > > clauses of a try statement, when I want the traceback of the inner > > raising, for debugging purposes. Syntax forces me to also comment > > the `try:' line, and indent out the lines

Re: [Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Unifying try-except and try-finally

2005-05-06 Thread François Pinard
[Guido van Rossum] > [Nick Coghlan] > > > What does a try statement with neither an except clause nor a > > > finally clause mean? > [Greg Ewing] > > > I guess it would mean the same as > >if 1: > > ... > I strongly disagree with this. [...] Allow me a quick comment on this issue. I

Re: [Python-Dev] Adding any() and all()

2005-03-11 Thread François Pinard
[Guido van Rossum] > But I realized (1) any() and all() read much better in their natural > context (an if statement), and there's no confusion there; I do not think builtins should read good in some statement contexts and bad in the others, or designed to be legible in only a few contexts. This