> On 22 Jan 2019, at 20:31, Michael Selik <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 12:11 PM Paul Ferrell <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > I see this as the natural evolution of what 'with' is all about - replacing > necessary try-finally blocks with something more elegant. We just didn't > include the 'except' portion. > > The time machine strikes again. In fact, you can handle exceptions with a > context manager object. Whatever you're with-ing must have a dunder exit > method, which received any exceptions raised in the block as an argument. > Return true and the exception is suppressed.
Suppressing the exception is not the general case. And will not work for the example given. Barry > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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