On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:03:50 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el
> mensaje
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:25:37 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>>>> def __del__(self):
>>>> try:
>>>> self.close()
>>>> finally:
>>>> pass
>>>> except:
>>>> pass
>>>
>>> The finally clause is useless here.
>>
>> In principle, closing a file could raise an exception. I've never seen it
>> happen, but it could. From the Linux man pages: [...]
>> I assume that the same will apply in Python.
>
> Note that he said that the *finally* clause were useless (and I'd say so,
> too), not the *except* clause.
Doh!
Yes, he's right. Worse, the code as show can't possibly work: the finally
clause must come AFTER the except clause.
>>> try:
... pass
... finally:
... pass
... except:
File "<stdin>", line 5
except:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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