Exception and finally question

[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message news:<3EA86EDA.EFD023C0 at alcyone.com>...
> 
> By design.  Originally, as I understand it, Python supported a unified
> try: ... except: ... finally: ... construct, but evidently it caused a
> lot of confusion with newbies (personally, I don't see where the
> confusion would be, but I guess that's because I'm familiar with the
> construct from Java).  So in modern Python the try can either have an
> except (perhaps several) or a finally, but not both.
> 

Really?  I could swear I saw somewhere that it was an implementation
issue, and likely to go away in the future.  Anyway, I agree with you,
I don't think it would be a problem.