[Python-Dev] with-statement heads-up (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 22:57:52 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I just realized that there's a bug in the with-statement as currently checked in. exit is supposed to re-raise the exception if there was one; if it returns normally, the finally clause is NOT to re-raise it. The fix is relatively simple (I believe) but requires updating lots of unit tests. It'll be a while.

So does that mean with statements will be able to suppress exceptions now? (If I'm reading the PEP changes right it does, but I haven't finished my coffee yet. . .)

I'm not complaining if that's so, as I think allowing it makes the operation of the statement both more useful and more intuitive, but you were originally concerned about the potential for hidden flow control if the context manager could suppress exceptions, as well as the need to remember to write "raise" in the except clauses of context managers.

If you changed your mind along the way, that should probably be explained in the PEP somewhere :)

Cheers, Nick

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