On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:38, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > I personally dislike recording the execution path in > local variables. This is like setting a flag in a loop > before the break, and testing the flag afterwards. > You can do this, but the else: clause of the loop is > just more readable.
Agreed! > This specific fragment has also the bug that a > KeyboardInterrupt before the assignment to complete > will cause a NameError/UnboundLocalError; this > can easily be fixed by moving the assignment before > the try block. And that begs the question whether getting rid of this common idiom is trading one common problem for another. -Barry
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