Exception and finally question

[Gerhard Häring]

Tung Wai Yip wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How to I access the exception object in a handler?
> 
> try:
>     raise NameError, 'HiThere'
> except NameError:
>     #how to print the message 'Hi There' here?
> 
> Why except and finally can't be used together? I like to log a error
> message if an exception is throw. And I a file to be guaranteed to be
> close. What can't I do them together?

try:
	try:
		...
	except ...:
		...
finally:
	...


HTH,

-- Gerhard