else: w/o except: - why not?

[Anna]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:33:57 +0000, Michael Chermside wrote:

> I can't speak for Tim, but my OWN opinion is precisely in alignment with
> what you have written.
> 
> I think that a "bare except" is useful in only two ways. The first is like
> a "finally" clause that's skipped if everything works. In other words, the
> following bits of code is (almost[1]) equivalent to your second example:
> 
>     everythingWorked = False
>     try:
>         f1()
>         everythingWorked = True
>     finally:
>         if not everythingWorked:
>             f2()
> 
> This doesn't come up much, but it's occasionally useful, and your version
> (using bare except with a raise) is a little prettier.

I thought that finally clauses are *always* run, whether an exception was
raised or not. 

Looks at code closely... So, in this case the finally is run (in terms of
evaluating the "if" statement), but function f2 may not happen depending
on the results of the "if". So the finally isn't really skipped, it just
doesn't do much if everything worked properly in the try clause. Right?

I'm not being picky - just seeing if I understand this correctly. Thanks.

Anna