[issue16028] break in finally discards exception

Mark Dickinson added the comment: That portion of the documentation has been restored. Closing this issue. -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _

[issue16028] break in finally discards exception

Yury Selivanov added the comment: see the issue 14167 -- nosy: +yselivanov ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue16028] break in finally discards exception

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Hmm. Yes, true. Either way, it's the docs that need to be fixed rather than the behaviour. Thanks for catching this! -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue16028] break in finally discards exception

Erik Allik added the comment: It looks to me that it was not removed from the doc but explicitly changed to say that 'break' does not cause the exception to be discarded, unless I'm misunderstanding it: 1.20 +:keyword:`finally` clause is executed. If there is a saved exception 1.21 +o

[issue16028] break in finally discards exception

Mark Dickinson added the comment: This *was* a documented feature until very recently; it looks as though a recent doc change inadvertently removed it from the documentation. See http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bef098bd3fa5 and the associated issue, issue 14167. -- nosy: +mark.dick

[issue16028] break in finally discards exception

New submission from Erik Allik: This is either a bug, or a very weird but undocumented feature/caveat. def fn1(): while True: try: raise Exception() finally: pass def fn2(): while True: try: raise Exception() finally: