Paul Rubin wrote: >> but given that try/except and try/finally used to be separate >> blocks, > > That old separation was just an artifact of how the parser was > originally written, I believe.
$ more Misc/HISTORY New features in 0.9.6: - stricter try stmt syntax: cannot mix except and finally clauses on 1 try </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list