In a message of Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:57:30 -0400, Neal Becker writes: >I know we have try/finally, but I don't think that helps here, because >code_executed_unconditionally couldn't be inside the try. Or am I missing >something obvious?
I think so. Either that or I am badly misunderstanding you. What is wrong with try: if (condition): do_something_needing_cleanup else: do_something_else code_executed_unconditionally finally: do_cleanup Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list