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

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

Since you agree that an exception raised in a finally block has well-defined semantics, why wouldn't a return statement?)

I think that to some extent exception > return. That is in both of these cases try: return finally: raise Exception() try: raise Exception() finally: return it makes sense to me that the caller would see an exception. I disagree that it should be a syntax error. But it could be a runtime error when an exception would get silently eaten. --- Bruce