Hi everyone, I've just finished studying O'Reilly's "Learning python" and since I come from the Java world, there are some things that bother me concerning python's exception handling.
In Java, all methods must declare the exceptions throwed (I'm speaking of checked exceptions)... but this is not the case in Python. So my question is : how can I know which exceptions I must catch ? (am I supposed to believe what's written in the documentation ? am I supposed to read the source code to see which exceptions are throwed ?) Also, can someone explain me why there is no try...except...finally statement ? For example, the following code snippet is not valid, but what would be the correct python way to do it ? myFile = open('file.txt') # assume file exists try: for nextLine in file: nextLine = nextLine.rstrip('\n');print "line = " + nextLine except IOError: print "Error while reading from file" finally: myFile.close -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list