On 17Jun2011 06:00, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: | If we were to have a "exit this module early, but without exiting Python | altogether" statement, I'd consider "exit" to be the most descriptive | name, although it would clash with existing uses of the word, e.g. | sys.exit(). Overloading "break" strikes me as disagreeable, but not as | disagreeable as overloading "return" or "in" :)
Just to throw another approach into the mix (because I was thinking about the "finally" word), what about: raise StopImport along the lines of generators' "raise StopIteration". Then the import machinery can catch it, no new keyword is needed and no existing keyword needs feature creeping. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. - Gandalf the grey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
