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

Michael Foord writes:

That exceptions can be silently swallowed in a finally block (which is 'expected' and usually intended to propagate exceptions)

I would say "intended to be executed regardless of control transfer out of the try block".

in the presence of a return (or a break apparently) is worrying.

Another solution would be to have the exception raised instead of swallowed.

That would really piss off anybody who deliberately put a return in a finally block, I think.