Roger Miller wrote: > On Jan 24, 11:30 am, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> .... > >> A few sample good uses of try/except blocks: >> (1) Do something else if an expected exception occurs. >> (2) Show a friendly error message when an exception occurs over ... > I'd add (3) Clean-up handlers. These don't actually handle the > problem, they just free resources, close files, etc. before re- > raising the exception for someone else to worry about.
Ah, but typically these are try/finally blocks. Many can be dealt with by context mangers in 2.5 or later -- see with_statement. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
