On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:50 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> wrote: [..] > > For me, it's fine to catch any exception using "except:" if the block > > contains "raise", typical pattern to cleanup a resource in case of > > error. Otherwise, there is a risk of leaking open file or not flushing > > data on disk, for example. > > Pardon the dumb question, but why is try/finally unsuitable?
Because try..finally isn't equivalent to try..except? Perhaps you should look at the actual code: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/b609e687a076d77bdd687f5e4def85e29a044bfc/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py#L1117-L1123 Yury _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com