How to improve code clarity in nested try-except-else clauses?

Question

Sometimes I have a cascade of different things I can try to accomplish a task, e. g. If I need to get a record I can first try to find the record, and if this fails, I can c

Answer 1

I think following code is more readable and clean. Also I am sure in real problem we need some parameters to be sent to "find_record" and "create_record" functions like id, some, values to create new record. The factory solution need those parameters also be listed in tuple

def try_create(else_return):
    try:
        record = create_record()
    except CreateFailed:
        record = else_return
        logger.info("Using a tape now")
    else:
        logger.info("Created a new record")

def try_find(else_call= try_create, **kwargs):
    try:
        record = find_record()
    except NoSuchRecord:
        try_create(**kwargs)
    else:
        logger.info("Record found") 



try_find(else_call=try_create, else_return=tape)