What about try:except:finally

[Richard Gruet]

Thomas Weholt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does python support, or if not, would it be cool to have support for :
>
> try:
>         # some code
> except :
>         # catch exception
> finally:
>         # clean up whatever
>
> Thomas

no, these are 2 separate constructs that you can embed:

try:
    try:
        # some code
    except:
        # catch exception
finally:
    # clean-up whatever

Your proposition makes sense but it's little gain, and with separate
constructs  you can do a lot of different things in the SAME try/finally,
e.g:

# Allocate resource (eg. open file)
try:
    # do something
    try:
        # some code
    except:
        # catch exception
   # do something else
    try:
        # some code
    except:
        # catch exception
finally:
    # release resource (eg close file)

Cheers,

Richard