[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Unifying try-except and try-finally

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 14:41, Tim Peters wrote:

> IIRC (and I may well not), half of people guessed wrong about whether
> an exception raised in an "except:" suite would or would not skip
> execution of the same-level "finally:" suite.

It would not, obviously <wink>.

> try:
>     1/0
> except DivisionByZero:
>     2/0
> finally:
>     print "yes or no?"
> 
> The complementary question is whether an exception in the "finally:"
> suite will be handled by the same-level "except:" suites.

It would not, obviously <wink>.

> There are obvious answers to both, of course.  The question is whether
> they're the _same_ obvious answers across responders <0.7 wink>.

It only matters that it's the same obvious answers across all responders
who are right. :)

-Barry

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