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 make sure your code is executed even if you get an exception.

The finally block is useful for cleaning up any resources allocated in the try block as well as running any code that must execute even if there is an exception

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