Try block problem

[Bernhard Herzog]

Jeff Davis <jdavis at empires.org> writes:

> I am not sure you understood my question. I wanted to know why the 
> "finally" could not be used with "try", i.e. why did the developers of 

The original question was about "try" and both "except" and "finally".
(just for clarification to get the context right)

> python choose to make the language that way.

IIRC, the reason is that the precise sematics are not clear in every
situation. For instance, what happens if an exception is raised in an
except clause? Should the finally clause be executed in that case or
not?

  Bernhard

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