finally
Clause of the try
Statement¶try
statement may have a finally
clause after any except
clauses or the else
clausefinally
clause is guaranteed to executefinally
suite ideal for resource-deallocation codewith
statement for this purposetry:
print('try suite with no exceptions raised')
except:
print('this will not execute')
else:
print('else executes because no exceptions in the try suite')
finally:
print('finally always executes')
try:
print('try suite that raises an exception')
int('hello')
print('this will not execute')
except ValueError:
print('a ValueError occurred')
else:
print('else will not execute because an exception occurred')
finally:
print('finally always executes')
with
Statements and try…except
Statements¶try
suite containing a with
statement to guarantee that the resource gets releasedopen('gradez.txt') # non-existent file
try:
with open('gradez.txt', 'r') as accounts:
print(f'{"ID":<3}{"Name":<7}{"Grade"}')
for record in accounts:
student_id, name, grade = record.split()
print(f'{student_id:<3}{name:<7}{grade}')
except FileNotFoundError:
print('The file name you specified does not exist')
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