[Python-ideas] "try with" syntactic sugar

[Georg Brandl]

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Daniel Stutzbach wrote
>> 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?
> 
> Your proposal sounds like a very good idea. +1 from me.
> 
> I like to push your proposal even further and add the full set of exept,
> else, finally blocks to the with statement.

I'd assumed this is already implicit in the proposal.

> Additionally I'd like to have multiple arguments, too.

+1 to that (it should have been there in the beginning).

> Example
> -------
> log.info("Starting copy")
> with somelock, open(infile, 'r') as fin, open(outfile, 'w') as fout:
>     fout.write(fin.read())
> except Excption:
>     log.exception("An error has occured")
> else:
>     log.info("Copy successful")
> finally:
>     log.info("All done")

I still like it better with the "try" before the "with".

Georg

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