Exceptions

2006-02-21 Thread DavidPorterHolt 
Can anyone explain why the second print statement below (copied from
'Dive Into Python') generates a syntax error? As I understand
exceptions, the except block should handle the exception, and the
following print statement should execute normally.

>>> try:
fsock = open('/nothere')
except IOError:
print 'The file does not exist, exiting gracefully'
print 'This line will always print'
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
David Holt
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Re: Exceptions

2006-02-21 Thread DavidPorterHolt 
Here's the same clip, but run in the command line interpreter. The
error gives a little more info.

>>> try:
... fsock = open('/notthere')
... except IOError:
... print 'The file does not exist, exiting gracefully'
... print 'This line will always print'
  File "", line 5
print 'This line will always print'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

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David Holt
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Re: Exceptions

2006-02-21 Thread DavidPorterHolt 
That's good to know. Thanks.

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