else: w/o except: - why not?
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Apr 1 17:20:05 EST 2003
Jeremy Fincher wrote:
> Wouldn't that be better written like thiS?
>
> try:
> f1()
> finally:
> f2()
No, that means something different. The finally clause _always_ gets
executed; the except clause only gets executed if an exception occurs.
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