try/except/else/finally problem

Sebastian Wiesner basti.wiesner at gmx.net
Thu Jun 28 14:06:32 EDT 2007


[ Ed Jensen <ejensen at visi.com> ]
> try:
>     f = file('test.txt', 'r')
> except IOError:
>     print 'except'
> else:
>     print 'else'
> finally:
>     print 'finally'
>
>
> And the results are:
>
>   File "./test.py", line 9
>     finally:
>           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

A finally block isn't allowed to appear together with an except block for 
releases previous to 2.5. You need to split your exception handling into 
two separate blocks.

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