Re: Opening files without closing them

"Peter Hansen" <peter@engcorp.com> wrote in message
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>
> So this is better, though probably excessive in small scripts:
>
> try:
> f = open('file')
> except IOError:
> # do something else
> else:
> try:
> content = f.read()
> finally:
> f.close()
>
> This takes advantage of "else" on try statements, which executes only if
> the except statement is not executed.
>
Thank you for your reply. I had forgotten that you could use 'else' in a
'try' statement. I like this solution. Thanks again.
Louis
Received on Sun Apr 30 11:12:54 2006