[Python-ideas] Make return inside a finally a SyntaxError

ryles rylesny at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 01:18:21 CEST 2009


On Jul 17, 8:18 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Isn't Python for consenting adults, or something like that? :-)

I agree. And the language reference does shed some light on this:

http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-try-statement

There are a lot of other things which are bad ideas as well. If you
personally don't want to permit return inside finally blocks, tools
like pylint or pychecker can be made to verify this.



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