> In this specific case, I wanted to invoke a return if the key doesn't > exist (as I wrote in my post). But this is not strictly relevant, my > question was more general. To phrase it in yet another way: is there > *any other way* to invoke return on a function, except by explicitly > writing "return" in its body?
Sure: fall off the end of the function. But that's not what you are after. Karsten -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list