[Python-Dev] Where to put the interrupt module? (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:20:33 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:

There's also a race condition in the language design that would need to be fixed before I'd like to have this feature. As you know, the proper idiom for using locks is:

lock.acquire() try: ...critical section code... finally: lock.release()

This just reminded me of a question that has been floating around in my brain for a while. Why doesn't Python support the following fully general syntax for try-blocks:

try: foo() except blah: ... except: ... else: ... finally: ...

I keep having to write:

try: try: foo() except blah: ... except: ... else: ... finally: ...

-Kevin

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