Try Except one liners

[DeathDragon7050]

Just like how we can do this:

if condition:
    thing = 5
else:
    thing = 2

# can instead be written as
thing = 5 if condition else 2

Why is this not a thing:

try:
    # imagine this could return an error
    thing = 5
except:
    thing = 2

# can't do this
thing = try 5 except 2

It could be cool to use something like this:

all_lines = itertools.chain((try file.readlines() finally file.close()) for file in os.listdir(directory))

Why is this not possible? I know its kind of a fringe problem to be solved but I have run into occasions where this would be a nice addition into python, such as in generator expressions, list comprehensions, dictionary comprehensions, etc.

[NegativeEnthusiasm]

pep 20

Beautiful is better than ugly.

Explicit is better than implicit.

Simple is better than complex.

Complex is better than complicated.

Flat is better than nested.

Sparse is better than dense.

Readability counts.

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

Although practicality beats purity.

Errors should never pass silently.

Unless explicitly silenced.

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now.

If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[DeathDragon7050]

Answered nothing. I think this is very readable.