Catching an exception while using a Python ‘with’ statement

by 
from __future__ import with_statement

try:
    with open( "a.txt" ) as f :
        print f.readlines()
except EnvironmentError: # parent of IOError, OSError *and* WindowsError where available
    print 'oops'

If you want different handling for errors from the open call vs the working code you could do:

try:
    f = open('foo.txt')
except IOError:
    print('error')
else:
    with f:
        print f.readlines()

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