On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:16 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >> Well... "break" does bypass the rest of the block, but it still exits >> via the end of the block. I have a tendency to try for one "return" per >> procedure (so I'm more likely to have an "if ...: break" then "if ...: >> return"). > > I have always tried to enforce 'only one return per function'. If > there are multiple returns it makes maintenance very difficult as > 'clear up' code can get bypassed. >
Isn't that why try/finally exists? No matter how many 'return' statements you have, there's always exceptions to bypass any naive cleanup code; and no matter how many returns you have, 'finally' blocks still execute before return. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
