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

[Jan Kaliszewski]

Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
>
>> 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.

But maybe we can convince BDFL that it should be -- not SyntaxError but
-- RuntimeError?

*j