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

On Jul 17, 8:18 pm, MRAB <pyt...@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 behavior: http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-try-statement If you don't want return used inside finally blocks then tools like pylint or pychecker can be made to detect this.