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What is the optional statement used in a try ... except statement in Python?

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What is the optional statement used in a try ... except statement in Python?
posted Jan 31, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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The try ... except statement has an optional 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:

for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        f = open(arg, 'r')
    except IOError:
        print 'cannot open', arg
    else:
        print arg, 'has', len(f.readlines()), 'lines'
        f.close()
answer Jul 11, 2016 by anonymous
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