On 5/1/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> then what should be the meaning of "continue" here? The finally
> block *eventually* needs to re-raise the exception. When should
> that happen?
It should behave similarly to return and swallow the exception. In
your example this would resu
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> the language reference says:
>
> continue may only occur syntactically nested in a for or while loop,
> but not nested in a function or class definition or finally statement
> within that loop. /.../
>
> It may occur within an except or else clause. The rest
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Strange. I thought this was supposed to be fixed? (But I can confirm
> that it isn't.)
Perhaps you were confusing it with this HISTORY entry?
- A 'continue' statement can now appear in a try block within the body
of a loop. It is still not possible to use continue in
Strange. I thought this was supposed to be fixed? (But I can confirm
that it isn't.)
BTW there's another bug in the compiler: it doesn't diagnose this
inside "while 0".
--Guido
On 5/1/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the language reference says:
>
> continue may only occur synt
the language reference says:
continue may only occur syntactically nested in a for or while loop,
but not nested in a function or class definition or finally statement
within that loop. /.../
It may occur within an except or else clause. The restriction on occurring
in the try
