[Python-Dev] Where to put the interrupt module?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Part of the idea (or at least my idea) behind adding the do/with
> statement which was discussed a while ago was to fix this problem.
> 
>         with lock:
>             ... critical section ...
> 
> would ensure that lock.release() is called properly.

Right.  That was also my idea (I think many people've had this idea
:-).  It has the advantage of being more generally useful than adding
an initially clause to the try/finally statement.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)