Slight irritation with try/finally indentation

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "François" == François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

[Alex Martelli]
> François Pinard wrote:

> > [Stephen J. Turnbull]
>         ...
> >>     try:
> >>         setup()
> >>         process()
> >>     except SetupError:
> >>         pass
> >>     else:
> >>         cleanup()
> > 
> > Clever, and nice.  Thanks for this idea, I'll ponder it.

> But this only calls cleanup if process does NOT raise.  NOT the same
> semantics as a try/finally *at all*!

> What am I missing...?

    François> I misread it, sorry.

But AFAICT it does what you want.  process() never raises SetupError.
Only setup() does that.

This may require some uglification in setup() or process() to
guarantee that their errors are disjoint.

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