cleaner way to write this?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Rubin wrote:

>> but given that try/except and try/finally used to be separate
>> blocks,
> 
> That old separation was just an artifact of how the parser was
> originally written, I believe.

$ more Misc/HISTORY

    New features in 0.9.6:
    - stricter try stmt syntax: cannot mix except and finally clauses
      on 1 try

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