On Nov 18, 7:13 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > It amounts to duplicating raise x...exception x as break x....continue x > in the name of aesthetics and supposed efficiency. There would be no new > functionality nor any abbreviation of code. The semantics of
there would be abbreviation: you wouldn't have to declare somewhere a dummy exception class. > anyplace'. The OP gives as a reason the possibility of a typo creating a > raise x ... except y mis-match. But a break x ... continue y mismatch is > equally likely. no: if you mismatch a label in this case, it should be treated as a syntax error, not as an unhandled exception which you might not notice. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
