Guido van Rossum added the comment: You misunderstand. The try/except is there in case os.stat isn't defined or its result doesn't have a st_mode attribute. If the stat operation fails due to a problem with the file, there's not much point in proceeding since the subsequent open() call would fail the same way.
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