Commit a7aea74a authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Clarify the description of the else clause for try/except, and add an

explanation of why you'd want to use it.

Based on a question from Michael Simcich <msimcich@accesstools.com>.
parent 1fe7b3a2
......@@ -2996,9 +2996,9 @@ except:
\end{verbatim}
The \keyword{try} \ldots\ \keyword{except} statement has an optional
\emph{else clause}, which must follow all except clauses. It is
useful to place code that must be executed if the try clause does not
raise an exception. For example:
\emph{else clause}, which, when present, must follow all except
clauses. It is useful for code that must be executed if the try
clause does not raise an exception. For example:
\begin{verbatim}
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
......@@ -3011,6 +3011,11 @@ for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
f.close()
\end{verbatim}
The use of the \keyword{else} clause is better than adding additional
code to the \keyword{try} clause because it avoids accidentally
catching an exception that wasn't raised by the code being protected
by the \keyword{try} \ldots\ \keyword{except} statement.
When an exception occurs, it may have an associated value, also known as
the exceptions's \emph{argument}.
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