2009/7/18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>
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.
I think the current behavior (swallowing an exception that most people would expect to be re-raised) surprises and pisses people off. Guido has already made a pronouncement so not much point continuing this discussion. Michael -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/