Re: [Python-ideas] with-except-finally blocks

Steven D'Aprano steve@pearwood.info wrote:

This has two obvious, and slightly different, interpretations:

with open('spam.txt') as file: try: print(file.read()) except IOError: print('No spam here...') finally: print('done.')

try: with open('spam.txt') as file: print(file.read()) except IOError: print('No spam here...') finally: print('done.')

Sometimes I want the first, sometimes the second. And I expect a conscious mind-reading interpreter which gives me the one I want. If the interpreter in retrospect thinks it has given me the wrong one it should raise SorryError.

Sturla