On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:04 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:
> Something I don't like about these kinds of proposals is that
> the except clause is far removed from the code that it covers,
> hurting readability. By the time you get to the end of a big
> for-loop or with-statement and see an "except", it's easy to
> forget that it isn't attached to an ordinary try-statement.
>
> I would be happier if there were some way to get the except
> clause at the top instead of the bottom, but it's hard to
> think of a nice way to do that.
>
try with open('some_file') as f:
except FileNotFoundError:
do_something()
else:
do_something_else(f)
was the best I could come up with, and I hate the `except` being indented
(but I think a non-indented line right after a : is probably a non-starter).
I do think even a clumsy solution is vaguely better than "just make your
try: block encompass both the open() and then everything you do with the
file after that".
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