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Author mwilliamson
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Date 2014-08-21.15:55:54
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In the docs for the try statement [1], part of the grammar is:

try1_stmt ::=  "try" ":" suite
               ("except" [expression ["as" target]] ":" suite)+
               ["else" ":" suite]
               ["finally" ":" suite]

The `target` rule allows any assignable expression (identifier, attributes, etc.). However, CPython appears to only allow identifiers as a target. The abstract grammar in the ast module [2] appears to confirm this.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-try-statement
[2] https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/ast.html#abstract-grammar
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