Good python equivalent to C goto

Chuck Rhode CRhode at LacusVeris.com
Mon Aug 18 10:19:24 EDT 2008


On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:08:35 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:

> In Python one uses try/raise/except.

At the risk of introducing an anachronism and in deference to
Mr. "ElementTree" Lundh, I now invoke Godwin's Law (1990):

Isn't *try/except* kinda sorta like the musty, old *come from*
construct proposed for *fortran*?  

Here there be typos (abject apologies):

o Clark, R. Lawrence. "A Linguistic Contribution to GOTO-less
Programming." _Datamation_ Dec. 1973. 18 Aug. 2008
<http://www.fortranlib.com/gotoless.htm>.

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