which one of these is better?

[Michael B. Trausch]

John Salerno wrote:
>     def create_sql_script(self):
>         try:
>             with open('labtables.sql') as sql_script:
>                 return sql_script.read()
>         except IOError:
>             wx.MessageBox('Could not locate the file "labtables.sql"',
>                           'File Not Found')
> 

I can't comment on this, because it won't work in my implemention of
Python, I don't think.

> 
> OR
> 
> 
>     def create_sql_script(self):
>         try:
>             f = open('labtables.sql')
>             sql_script = f.read()
>         except IOError:
>             wx.MessageBox('Could not locate the file "labtables.sql"',
>                           'File Not Found')
>         finally:
>             f.close()
> 

Not really über-qualified to say anything, but I think that the
following would be better:

try:
	f = open('file.sql')
	script = f.read()
	f.close()
except IOError:
	wx.MessageBox('Message', 'Message Title')

> 
> Do they both do the same thing?
>

Not sure about the with-- I just went to read the PEP on it, and it
confused me greatly.  :-)  So, I don't know.

	-- Mike