Exceptions and locks

[Michael Ströder]

HI!

I have to use threading.Lock() objects in my application.

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?

Ciao, Michael.