On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 9:35:06 PM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:16 AM, Chris Green wrote: > > Dennis Lee Bieber 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
What happened to context managers? -- Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list