Gabriel Genellina wrote: > At Wednesday 18/10/2006 22:51, Cameron Walsh wrote: > >> previous_directory = os.getcwd() >> try: >> os.chdir(directory) >> [ ... ] >> return modules >> finally: >> os.chdir(previous_directory) >> >> Woah, that actually works? Having the "finally" after the "return"? >> That could make some things easier, and some things harder... > > Note that moving the return statement after the finally does *exactly* > the same thing, generates shorter code, and is a lot more readable (IMHO). > >
I wholeheartedly agree, the above version is hideous. It was a copy-paste error that got it after the return statement and I was surprised to see it actually worked. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
