[Python-ideas] try-else without except or finally

[Ethan Furman]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Yuval Greenfield wrote:
> 
>> "Try...else..." doesn't make any sense without the except jn my eyes. The
>> "else" has to conjugate something.
> 
> 
> We already have while...else and for...else blocks in Python. The 
> principle is the same:
> 
> 
> while condition():
>     ...
> else:
>     # Run the else block unless we exit the while block with a break.
>     ...
> 
> 
> try:
>     ...
> else:
>     # Run the else block unless we exit the try block with an exception.
>     ...
> finally:
>     ...

-1 to skipping the except

while/else and for/else are more along the lines of 'when condition is 
False, run the else suite -- how would you have a false condition for 
the try?  You don't, you have a false condition for the except.

~Ethan~