About python 2.5 and its try statement.

[Fredrik Lundh]

"defcon8" wrote:

>I can't remember the proposal number, but many of you reading will have
> probably read the features that will be added to python 2.5. The actual
> part I wanted to talk about was the finally part of try. Isn't it
> totally defeating a compiler's job by executing the finally part even
> if there is an error in the previous statements? Or have I understood
> something wrong?

sounds like you're confusing compilation and execution, and compilation errors
(syntax errors) with runtime errors (exceptions).

try-finally is a runtime thing, not a compile time thing.

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