On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 5:28:44 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: > Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> writes: > > So why treat 'continue' specially? > > I am inclined to agree, but in the opposite direction: a case should be > made for allowing *any* flow-control statement in an exception-handler's > 'finally' clause.
I agree, those all seem like bad ideas. But 'continue' has been singled out for a SyntaxError. Rumor has it that continue was difficult to make work at all, while the other keywords, while ill-advised, were at least possible. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
