try...finally is more powerful than I thought.

[Ype Kingma]

Jython once had a bug where it would not execute the outer finally
through a return, ie. in:

def x():
  try:
    try:
      return 1
    finally:
      doSomething1()
  finally:
    doSomething2()

doSomething2() would not get executed.
The workaround was straightforward: save the return value in some local
variable and return at the end.

In case you like such puzzles, this is the test code:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/jython/bugtests/test371.py?rev=1.2&view=markup

Btw. CPython never failed a single test case in there.

Have fun,
Ype


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