title: jython syntaxerror?
body: <p>I got the following syntax error at the following line when I run my program in jython:</p>
  <pre><code>except Exception as detail:
  </code></pre>
  <p>SyntaxError: mismatched input 'as' expecting COLON</p>
  <p>but on python is it ok? What is wrong? I am trying to use the stanford pos tagger api (java) in my python program. Are there other ways?</p>