[Python-ideas] with-except-finally blocks

[James Edwards]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Andrew Barnert
<abarnert at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> Anyway, I like the idea, but does the grammar work? A with that has an optional except and finally at the same level seems potentially ambiguous. For example:
>
>     with spam:
>         pass
>     with eggs:
>         pass
>     finally:
>         pass

Is this any more (or less) ambiguous than:

    if cond1:
        pass
    if cond2:
        pass
    else:
        pass

And we have no issue with that (at least not syntactically).  With
respect to readability however, ...

But as far as the example goes, I agree that it's probably a bit mixed
up as was stated.