Goto (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 9:35:06 PM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:16 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> >>
> >>         Well... "break" does bypass the rest of the block, but it still exits
> >> via the end of the block. I have a tendency to try for one "return" per
> >> procedure (so I'm more likely to have an "if ...: break" then "if ...:
> >> return").
> >
> > I have always tried to enforce 'only one return per function'.  If
> > there are multiple returns it makes maintenance very difficult as
> > 'clear up' code can get bypassed.
> >
> 
> Isn't that why try/finally exists? No matter how many 'return'
> statements you have, there's always exceptions to bypass any naive
> cleanup code; and no matter how many returns you have, 'finally'
> blocks still execute before return.
> 
> ChrisA

What happened to context managers?

--
Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.