Breaking Out

[Gerhard Häring]

* Mahrt, Dallas <dallasm at aiinet.com> [2002-08-23 18:47 -0400]:
> Here is an ugly answer

Yeah. String-based exceptions are indeed ugly.

> EscapeException = "HACK"

class EscapeException(Exception): pass

> try:
>     [...]
> 		if some_condition:
> 			raise EscapeException
>     [...]
> except EscapeException:
> 	pass
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