[Python-ideas] Re: for ... except, with ... except

I am guessing the problem here is something like this:

with open(filename) as f: data = f.read()

raises an exception if the open() call fails, but putting try... except IOError: ... around the whole thing also catches I/O errors in the read() call (or anything else you might put in the body). Other solutions are more verbose and run other risks. For other types of context managers it may be worse because the error you want to catch occurs in the __enter__() call that's implicit in the with-clause (for open(), __enter__() is just "return self" since all the work happens before).