open() and EOFError
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Mon Jul 7 13:31:53 EDT 2014
Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>:
> It's good practice to keep your try blocks as narrow as possible in
> any case.
True. Unfortunately, that leads to trouble with the handy "with"
construct:
with open(path) as f:
...
If the open() call is guarded against exceptions (as it usually should),
one must revert to the classic syntax:
try:
f = open(path)
except IOError:
...
try:
...
finally:
f.close()
Marko
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