Try block problem

[Jeff Davis]

I am not sure you understood my question. I wanted to know why the 
"finally" could not be used with "try", i.e. why did the developers of 
python choose to make the language that way.

Thanks,
        Jeff

Greg Krohn wrote:

> "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