On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > .. especially by people that expect it to work like VB's "on error resume > next" > rather than by suppressing the exception and resuming execution after the > with statement.
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