On Mar 4, 12:30 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > He's ignorant of the use cases of the with: statement, true.
<humor> Ouch! Ignorant of the use cases of the with statement, am I? Odd, I use it all the time. </humor> > Given only your > example of the with: statement, it is hard to fault him for thinking that try: > finally: wouldn't suffice. <humor> Damn me with faint praise, will you? </humor> I'm kinda amazed at the drama my innocent request for the use case elicited. From what I've gotten so far from this thread, for the actual example Mr. Steinbach used, the only disadvantage to my counter- example using try/finally is that the chdir in the finally part will always be executed, even if the chdir in the try part did not succeed. I concede that, and was aware of it when I wrote it. For the simple example given, I did not consider it compelling. A more complex example, that would have required multiple, nested try/finally blocks, would show the advantages of Mr Steinbach's recipe more clearly. However, I fail to understand his response that I must have meant try/ else instead, as this, as Mr. Kern pointed out, is invalid syntax. Perhaps Mr. Steinbach would like to give an example? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list