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0 pointsemidln10y ago0 comments

I've seen exceptions masquerading as goto in the wild in multiple python codebases (and not because I added them). `raise HttpResponse(status=401, body="unauthorized")` inside some utility method is little more than goto exit in a lot of C code.

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Walkman10y ago

Using Exceptions this way in Python code is common practice and considered "Pythonic" and it's different than goto:

- an Exception only can bubble up the call stack, not to an arbitrary location in the code

- it can be caught whatever level during that path

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Walkman10y ago

Using Exceptions this way in Python code is common practice and considered "Pythonic" and it's different than goto:

- an Exception only can bubble up the call stack, not to an arbitrary location in the code

- it can be caught whatever level during that path

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse