try...finally is more powerful than I thought.

[Peter Hansen]

Lee Harr wrote:
> 
> On 2003-11-07, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> > Lee Harr wrote:
> >> interesting.
> >
> > Why?  It just proves that "finally" works, and
> > executes when the return statement is encountered.
> 
> Yes. I just found the entire thread interesting. I know that
> people who are unfamiliar with the try ... finally syntax can
> easily fire up the interpreter and play around with it for
> themselves, but I thought the "basic functionality" example
> might make the rest of the thread more clear.
> 
> I have written a lot of python code and have never used finally.

Ah, good point. :-)

-Peter