Issue2236

The "as" keyword is not accepted in a try ... except construct. This should be available from Python 2.6.

>>> try:
...     f = open("x.tmp")
... except IOError as ex:
  File "<stdin>", line 3
    except IOError as ex:
                        ^
SyntaxError: mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting INDENT

A comma is acceptable to Jython for the same purpose.

Possibly an easy grammar fix since the code generation does not have to change. A test is clearly missing.

That's odd. It works perfectly well when the source is a file, but not at the console. It is not sensitive to whether I use TAB or spaces.
>>> try:
...     print 1/0
... except ZeroDivisionError, e:
...     print "Ha!", e
...
Ha! integer division or modulo by zero
>>> try:
...     print 1/0
... except ZeroDivisionError as e:
  File "<stdin>", line 3
    except ZeroDivisionError as e:
                                 ^
SyntaxError: mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting INDENT

And the error message is strangely irrelevant.

I'm guessing that this is interactive prompt only - unfortunately they are separate grammars and I sometimes miss an update. Should be an easy fix.

Fixed in https://hg.python.org/jython/rev/8f083cde280f