[Python-ideas] with-except-finally blocks

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:39:37PM -0700, Kale Kundert wrote:

>> I'd like to propose a little bit of syntactic sugar: allowing with-blocks to be
>> followed by except- and finally-blocks just like try-blocks.  For example:

-1

'with' is highly specialized, and trying to make it more generic will be confusing.


>> Second and more conceptually, it makes sense to think about exception handling
>> in the context of a with-block.
> 
> No more than any other block of code. There is nothing special about 
> with blocks that go with exception handling [...]

I have to disagree:  'with' blocks are exactly a condensed try/finally, with the
added capability of being able to suppress exceptions -- this makes them very
special with respect to exception handling.

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~Ethan~