On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:
There's also a race condition in the language design that would need to be fixed before I'd like to have this feature. As you know, the proper idiom for using locks is:
lock.acquire() try: ...critical section code... finally: lock.release()
This just reminded me of a question that has been floating around in my brain for a while. Why doesn't Python support the following fully general syntax for try-blocks: try: foo() except blah: ... except: ... else: ... finally: ... I keep having to write: try: try: foo() except blah: ... except: ... else: ... finally: ... -Kevin -- -- Kevin Jacobs The OPAL Group - Enterprise Systems Architect Voice: (216) 986-0710 x 19 E-mail: jacobs@theopalgroup.com Fax: (216) 986-0714 WWW: http://www.theopalgroup.com