Introducing a Safe Navigation Operator in Python

[jcampbell05 (James Campbell)]

I’m scoping out the result types proposal here

Introduce Result class to allow a modern representation of failure cases

Context There have been a series of discussions around introducing various new methods of handling exception as seen in other languages: PEP 463 – Exception-catching expressions | peps.python.org, Introducing a Safe Navigation Operator in Python - #163 by elis.byberi All of these stored due to the community not able to reach consensus around accepting the trade-of these proposals of discarding the exception itself so that the developer no longer has any context why they got that value. At th…

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