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the death of lecter

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon Sep 11 23:45:33 EDT 2000 
Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> "Michal Wallace" <sabren at manifestation.com> wrote in message
> >    * extended 'try' syntax:
> >          try:
> >              print 'do something'
> >          except:
> >              print 'catch errors'
> >          finally:
> >              print 'clean up' # not allowed in real Python
> >
> >       # not sure why you'd want to do this, but the fact that you
> >       # can't seems kind of sad.. :)
> 
> You just have to nest it:
>         try:
>             try:
>                 print "foo"
>             except:
>                 print "errors"
>         finally:
>             print "clean up"
> 
> I do agree that an optionally finally-clause after 1 or more except
> clauses (and possibly an else clause too) on a try would make for a
> nice alternative to this rather cumbersome nested syntax where except
> (& maybe else) and finally are mutually exclusive.

And in some cases, it might be more appropriate to use:

  try:
      try:
          print "spam"
      finally:
          print " and eggs"
  except:
      print "Ping!"

I wonder whether the proposed combined method try/except/finally could
just as easily support try/finally/except.

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Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
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