Regarding exception handling

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Bryan" wrote

> the above is not the same. make the a = ... raise an exception and you'll see the difference.
>
> s = ... #
> a = 1/0
> s.close()
>
> as you can see, s.close() will never be called.  also, in this example, i intentionally didn't put 
> the extra try/except around the try/finally statement.

file handles and sockets are closed when the objects are garbage collected.
under CPython, they're usually closed when they go out of scope.

using try/finally on files and sockets are usually overkill.

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