What's the use of the else in try/except/else?

[Scott David Daniels]

greg wrote:
> kj wrote:
> 
>> Wow.  As rationales for syntax constructs go, this has got to be
>> the most subtle one I've ever seen...
> 
> It's to avoid masking bugs. Suppose you accidentally
> wrote
> 
>   try:
>     v = mumble.field
>     sys.warming('field was actually there?')
>   except AttributeError:
>     pass
> 
> Then you could easily fail to notice that
> you had written 'warming' instead of 'warning'.
> 
Well, if you look, you'll discover that warning is not in the
sys module at all, but in the logging module.
So the original example already demonstrated the problem.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org