Merge pull request #1223 from outcoldman/patch-2

Python3: add finally and with statements

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown
index 9d965fb1..fbed77fe 100644
--- a/python3.html.markdown
+++ b/python3.html.markdown
@@ -374,6 +374,13 @@ except (TypeError, NameError):
     pass    # Multiple exceptions can be handled together, if required.
 else:   # Optional clause to the try/except block. Must follow all except blocks
     print("All good!")   # Runs only if the code in try raises no exceptions
+finally: #  Execute under all circumstances
+    print "We can clean up resources here"
+ 		 
+# Instead of try/finally to cleanup resources you can use a with statement
+with open("myfile.txt") as f:
+    for line in f:
+        print line
 
 # Python offers a fundamental abstraction called the Iterable.
 # An iterable is an object that can be treated as a sequence.