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On 8 June 2014 08:12, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have an example motivating a return from finally? It seems
> to me it would always be a bad idea as it silently clears all unexpected
> exceptions.

In a general sense:

    try:
        something_that_can_break()
        return foo() # before clean_up
    finally:
        clean_up()
        if default:
            return default() # after clean_up()

What's the best replacement? Note: I've never done this.

---

I do sometimes use

    try:
        return x
    finally:
        x += 1

over

    ret = x
    x += 1
    return ret

now-a-days.