[Python-ideas] breaking out of module execution

[Cameron Simpson]

On 24Apr2012 13:23, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
| In a function you can use a return statement to break out of execution
| in the middle of the function.  With modules you have no recourse.
| This is akin to return statements being allowed only at the end of a
| function.
[...]

Something very similar came up some months ago I think.

My personal suggestion was:

  raise StopImport

to cleanly exit a module without causing an ImportError, just as exiting
a generator raises Stopiteration in the caller. In this case the caller
is the import machinery, which should consider this except a clean
completion of the import.

Cheers,
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