* Mike Kent:
What's the compelling use case for this vs. a simple try/finally?
if you thought about it you would mean a simple "try/else". "finally" is always
executed. which is incorrect for cleanup
by the way, that's one advantage:
a "with Cleanup" is difficult to get wrong, while a "try" is easy to get wrong,
as you did here
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another general advantage is as for the 'with' statement generally
original_dir = os.getcwd()
try:
os.chdir(somewhere)
# Do other stuff
also, the "do other stuff" can be a lot of code
and also, with more than one action the try-else introduces a lot of nesting
finally:
os.chdir(original_dir)
# Do other cleanup
cheers & hth.,
- alf
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