Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 14/12/2015 17:37, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 5:28:44 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> writes:
>>> So why treat 'continue' specially?
>>
>> I am inclined to agree, but in the opposite direction: a case should be
>> made for allowing *any* flow-control statement in an exception-handler's
>> 'finally' clause.
>
> I agree, those all seem like bad ideas.  But 'continue' has been singled
> out for a SyntaxError.  Rumor has it that continue was difficult to make
> work at all, while the other keywords, while ill-advised, were at least
> possible.
>
> --Ned.
>

Part of the rumour mill 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/484210?  This was 
referenced from the stackoverflow question that Ben Finney referred to 
yesterday.

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Mark Lawrence