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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: try/except/finally
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:32:00 -0400
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In article <mailman.10871.1402189805.18130.python-list@python.org>,
 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 08/06/2014 01:12, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article <mailman.10867.1402184850.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> >   Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> A return statement inside a finally block is code smell.
> >
> > Not to my nose.  It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
> >
> 
> I agree, the code smell is the return in the except block.

That's not setting my nose on end either.