except clause syntax question

Mon Jan 30 12:56:23 EST 2012

On 01/30/2012 06:41 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
> To catch more than one exception type in an except block, one writes
>> except (A, B, C) as e:
>> I'm wondering why it was decided to match tuples, but not lists:
>> except [A, B, C] as e:
>> The latter makes more sense semantically to me -- "catch all exception types in a list" as opposed to "catch this single thing composed of three exception types".
>>> Charles Yeomans
>>
Then, semantically, shouldn't it be a set?