[Python-ideas] Potential PEP: with/except

[Michael Selik]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 12:11 PM Paul Ferrell <pflarr at gmail.com wrote:

> I see this as the natural evolution of what 'with' is all about -
> replacing necessary try-finally blocks with something more elegant. We just
> didn't include the 'except' portion.
>

The time machine strikes again. In fact, you can handle exceptions with a
context manager object. Whatever you're with-ing must have a dunder exit
method, which received any exceptions raised in the block as an argument.
Return true and the exception is suppressed.

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