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

[Guido van Rossum]

I'm sorry, I don't think more research can convince me either way. I want
all three of return/break/continue to work inside finally clauses, despite
there being few use cases.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Neil Schemenauer <nas-python at arctrix.com>
wrote:

> On 2018-01-03, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> > I haven't found 'finally' clauses in
> > https://github.com/gevent/gevent/blob/master/src/gevent/
> libev/corecffi.py.
> > Perhaps this code was changed in recent versions.
>
> Yes, I was looking at was git revision bcf4f65e.  I reran my AST
> checker and found this:
>
> ./src/gevent/_ffi/loop.py: 181: return inside finally
>
> > In any case we now know that this combination is occurred (but
> > very rarely) in the wild.
>
> Looks like it.  If we do want to seriously consider changing the
> grammar, I will download more packages of PyPI and check them.
>
> BTW, ./src/gevent/threadpool.py doesn't compile with 3.7 because it
> uses 'async' as a variable name.  So either they didn't notice the
> deprecation warnings or they didn't care to update their code.
>
> Regards,
>
>   Neil
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