# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: OpenSSF project contributors
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
"""Compliant Code Example"""

import threading

lock = threading.Lock()


def perform_critical_operation():
    with lock:
        # the lock has been acquired using the 'with' statement and will be released when the block exits; even if an exception occurs
        print("Lock acquired, performing critical operation...")
        raise ValueError("Something went wrong!")
        # This line will not be reached because of the exception above
    print("Lock released.")


try:
    perform_critical_operation()
except ValueError as e:
    print(f"Caught exception: {e}")