Re: [Python-ideas] One-line "try with" statement

Stefan Behnel wrote:

The above example therefore strikes me as useless. If you need a try-except around a with block, then your context manager is doing something wrong.

A with statement is equivalent to try-finally, not try-except, so if you want to catch the exception you still need to put a try-except somewhere. However, I can't see why you're any more likely to want to put try-except directly around a with statement than any other kind of statement. So why ask for try-with in particular, and not try-if, try-while, try-for, ...? -- Greg