[Python-ideas] "try with" syntactic sugar

[Scott David Daniels]

Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> <another way to get to possibly relevant code>

It seems to me the question is, among the single-statement try blocks,
what kinds of (non-function call, non-assignment) statements are the
inner statement, and what frequency does this occur.

On Python5, 25, and 30, I get quite similar numbers:

  2.5 2.6 3.0
   10  15  14 with
   15  11  13 yield
   25  26  22 class
   32  23  *8 print  # print is a function in 3.0, called 8 times
   37  33  24 while
   44  35 *26 exec   # exec is a function in 3.0, called 26 times
    9  42  41 pass
   49  44  64 raise
   67  45  29 del
   95  61  40 for
  142  68  42 if
  182 105  63 from
  230 163 107 import
  588 307 150 return

These numbers are pulled from the output of the attached
imperfect program, and hand-editted together.  The numbers
seem to me to say that try-for and try-while substantially
exceed try-with statements.

--Scott David Daniels
@Acm.Org
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