"defcon8" wrote: >I can't remember the proposal number, but many of you reading will have > probably read the features that will be added to python 2.5. The actual > part I wanted to talk about was the finally part of try. Isn't it > totally defeating a compiler's job by executing the finally part even > if there is an error in the previous statements? Or have I understood > something wrong?
sounds like you're confusing compilation and execution, and compilation errors (syntax errors) with runtime errors (exceptions). try-finally is a runtime thing, not a compile time thing. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
