Alex Burke <alexjeffbu...@gmail.com>:
> While reading up on a previous thread 'open() and EOFError' I saw the
> following (with minor changes to help make my question clearer) block
> suggested as a canonical way to open files and do something:
>
> try:
> f = open(path)
> except IOError:
> handle_error()
> else:
> with f:
> do_stuff()
>
> This somewhat surprised me because I'd always written such a block
> something more as follows:
>
> try:
> with open(path) as f:
> do_stuff()
> except IOError:
> handle_error('file never opened')
> except ApplicationError:
> handle_error('doing something with the content went wrong')
>
> Aside from the pythonic but less widely known else clause of the
> try/except in the first form, what else is different? What nuances am
> I missing?
Your version catches IOError for do_stuff() as well as open(). You
usually want to guard each statement with try-except so you can log and
pinpoint the error better.
Marko
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