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

Dj Gilcrease digitalxero at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 21:14:05 CET 2011


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> "except: raise" makes it explicit that an exception is to be propogated.
>>  Far from being pointless it makes the code much more readable.  "Explicit
>> is better than implicit."
>
> +1. Nobody's going to understand try...else... on first reading.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)


I agree, try...else... when reading it would be try this block of
code, else if it fails do this block of code



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