Exceptions and locks
Matthew Dixon Cowles
matt at mondoinfo.com
Tue Apr 10 13:19:15 EDT 2001
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:55:36 +0200, Michael Ströder
<michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
>I'm currently doing something like this code below to make sure that
>locks are released also in case of any exception raised:
>
>my_lock = threading.Lock()
>
>my_lock.acquire()
>try:
> ..some single action..
>except:
> my_lock.release()
> raise
>my_lock.release()
>
>But this looks crude to me. Any more elegant way of doing this?
This is just the sort of situation that the try...finally sequence was
designed for. See:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/try.html
and have a look at the last two paragraphs.
Regards,
Matt
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