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Any other Python flaws?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Jun 15 03:47:40 EDT 2001 
barry at digicool.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

> Another one is the fact that you can't mix try/finallys with
> try/excepts.

Isn't the usual argument about this one that it's not obvious what
gets executed when?

Eg. does

try:
    raise Exception
except Exception:
    pass
finally:
    print "hullo"

print "hullo"?  I guess so.  Still, the explicitness of what you have
to do now seems to me to be a win over the pain of multiple
indentations.

Cheers,
M.
who has, on occasion, written functions that start with three
successive "try:"s...

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