[Python-Dev] more pyref: continue in finally statements

[Guido van Rossum]

Strange. I thought this was supposed to be fixed? (But I can confirm
that it isn't.)

BTW there's another bug in the compiler: it doesn't diagnose this
inside "while 0".

--Guido

On 5/1/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> the language reference says:
>
>     continue may only occur syntactically nested in a for or while loop,
>     but not nested in a function or class definition or finally statement
>     within that loop. /.../
>
>     It may occur within an except or else clause. The restriction on occurring
>     in the try clause is implementor's laziness and will eventually be lifted.
>
> and it looks like the new compiler still has the same issue:
>
>     $ python test.py
>         File "test.py", line 5:
>             continue
>     SyntaxError: 'continue' not supported inside 'finally' clause
>
> how hard would it be to fix this ?
>
> (shouldn't the "try clause" in the note read "finally clause", btw?  "continue"
> within the "try" suite seem to work just fine...)
>
> </F>
>
>
>
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