Steve Holden wrote:
I've even used an exception called Continue to overcome an irksome restriction in the language (you used not to be able to continue a loop from an except clause).
Out of curiosity, how could you use an exception to do that? I would think you would need to catch it and then use "continue", which wouldn't be possible because of the restriction you were trying to work around in the first place.
As long as the exception-handling code doesn't break then the loop automatically continues, so the trick was (IIRC) to have a loop body that essentially looked like this:
for item in somelist:
try:
{loop body}
except Continue:
passThen exceptions caught inside the loop body (which obviously had nested try: clauses) could raise Continue inside their except: clause to restart the loop at the next iteration.
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