C# try-catch-else

Question

One thing that has bugged me with exception handling coming from Python to C# is that in C# there doesn\'t appear to be any way of specifying an else clause. For example, in

Answer 1

More idiomatically, you would employ the using statement to separate the file-open operation from the work done on the data it contains (and include automatic clean-up on exit)

try {
  using (reader = new StreamReader(path))
  {
    DoSomethingWith(reader);
  }
} 
catch(IOException ex)
{
  // Log ex here
}

It is also best to avoid catching every possible exception -- like the ones telling you that the runtime is about to expire.