[Python-ideas] try-else without except or finally

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Nov 10 16:53:25 CET 2011


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com> wrote:
> "except: raise" makes it explicit that an exception is to be propogated.
>  Far from being pointless it makes the code much more readable.  "Explicit
> is better than implicit."

+1. Nobody's going to understand try...else... on first reading.

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