What is the point of finally in a try catch/except finally statement

Question

I have used try-catch/except-finally variants in many languages for years, today someone asked me what is the point of finally and I couldn\'t answer.

Basically why wo

Answer 1

Finally block is executed even if an exception thrown in the try block. Therefore, for instance if you opened a stream before, you may want to close that stream either an exception is thrown or not. Finally block is useful for such an issue.