[Python-Dev] 'continue'/'break'/'return' inside 'finally' clause

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 09:38:15 EST 2017


Looks to me the prohibition was to prevent a crash. It makes more sense to
fix it.

On Dec 28, 2017 03:39, "Serhiy Storchaka" <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

Currently 'continue' is prohibited inside 'finally' clause, but 'break' and
'return' are allowed. What is the r

'continue' was prohibited in https://bugs.python.org/issue1542451. Should
we prohibit also 'break' and 'return' or allow
'continue'? 'break' and 'return' are never used inside 'finally' clause in
the stdlib.

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