Try block problem

[Greg Krohn]

"Jeff Davis" <jdavis at empires.org> wrote in message
news:9tcnls$42k$1 at news1.ucsd.edu...
>         It seems like the following makes sense to me:
>
> try:
>         ...
> except:
>         ...
> finally:
>         ...

except and finally can't be used together.

>>> def spam(x):
...  try:
...   print 10 / x
...  finally:
...   print 'Cleanup before exception is raised'
...
>>> def eggs(x):
...  try:
...   print 10 / x
...  except:
...   print 'Bad x! Bad, bad x!'
...
>>> spam(1)
10
Cleanup before exception is raised
>>> spam(0)
Cleanup before exception is raised
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "<interactive input>", line 3, in spam
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
>>> eggs(1)
10
>>> eggs(0)
Bad x! Bad, bad x!

More info: http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/try.html

greg