[Python-Dev] 'continue'/'break'/'return' inside 'finally' clause (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 13:36:35 EST 2017

28.12.17 16:38, Guido van Rossum пише:

Looks to me the prohibition was to prevent a crash. It makes more sense to fix it.

The crash can be fixed by just removing the check after finishing issue17611.

But is there any use case for 'continue'/'break'/'return' inside 'finally' clause? The code like

 try:
     return 1
 finally:
     return 2

or

 try:
     continue
 finally:
     break

looks at least confusing. Currently 'break' and 'return' are never used inside 'finally' clause in the stdlib. I would want to see a third-party code that uses them.

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