[Python-ideas] "try with" syntactic sugar

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Arnaud Delobelle
> <arnodel at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Every compound statement could be made into an implicit try, i.e.
>
> That way lies madness.  What distinguishes "with" from other compound
> statements is that it's already about resource management in the face
> of possible exceptions.

Still, a firm -1 from me. Once we have "try try" I'm sure people are
going to clamor for "try if", "try while", "try for", even (oh horror
:-) "try try". I don't think we should complicate the syntax just to
save one level of indentation occasionally.

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