Around two-thirds of the time, whenever I use the wonderful new "with" construct, it's enclosed in a "try-except" block, like this: try: with something as f: many lines of code except some_error: handle error The "with" statement is great, but it results in the bulk of the code being indented twice. I'd like to propose a little syntactic sugar, the "try with": try with something as f: many lines of code except some_error: handle error It saves one line of vertical space, and gets rid of an indentation level for the bulk of the code that rests within the "with" statement. Thoughts? Here's a short script to count how many uses of "with" within your code are immediately preceded by "try": #!/usr/bin/python import re, sys re_with = re.compile(r'(try:[ \t]*)?[\r\n]+[ \t]+with ') try_with = 0 total = 0 for fname in sys.argv[1:]: data = open(fname).read() for match in re_with.findall(data): if match: try_with += 1 total += 1 print 'try-with:', try_with, 'out of:', total, '(', try_with*100.0/total,'%)' Usage: Cashew:~$ /tmp/count_try_with.py *.py try-with: 17 out of: 25 ( 68.0 %) -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>