[Python-ideas] breaking out of module execution

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 25 Apr, 2012, at 14:11, Mark Shannon wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Unless you address the disadvantages and costs of top level return, you won't convince me, and I doubt you will convince many others.
> 
> What costs?

Harder to understand code is one disadvantage. The "return" that ends execution can easily be hidden in a list of definitions, such as


... some definitions ...

if sys.platform != 'win32': return

... more definitions for win32 specific functionality ...



That's easy to read with a 10 line module, but not when the module gets significantly larger.

Also, why use the proposed module-scope return instead of an if-statement with nested definitions, this works just fine:

: def foo(): pass
:
: if sys.platform == 'linux':
:
:    def linux_bar(): pass




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