If I’m understanding this correctly this proposal would fully break compatibility with many (most?) codebases, actually remove syntactic sugar and force more characters for the same functionality. I fail to see how this is even being considered.
I don’t understand the idiomatic viewpoint either here, I understand the author personally finds it confusing when excepts aren’t verbose but I think you would be hard pressed to find many python developers who agree. Even outside the ecosystem, most languages have been adding more support for bare excepts (like js with bare catch) so this feels like a step backwards.
But maybe I’m just not understanding this proposal!
I don’t understand the idiomatic viewpoint either here, I understand the author personally finds it confusing when excepts aren’t verbose but I think you would be hard pressed to find many python developers who agree. Even outside the ecosystem, most languages have been adding more support for bare excepts (like js with bare catch) so this feels like a step backwards.
But maybe I’m just not understanding this proposal!