Yeah, continue inside the finally block is illegal. If you don't have the extra try/except nesting then continue is detected as a syntax error.
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:22 AM To: Josiah Carlson Cc: Dino Viehland; python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] 2.4 & 2.5 beta 3 crash def test(): for abc in range(10): try: pass finally: try: pass except: pass test() does not raise a segmentation fault. On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Josiah Carlson wrote: > > Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We've been working on fixing some exception handling bugs in > > IronPython where we differ from CPython. Along the way we ran into > > this issue which causes CPython to crash when the code below is run. > > It crashes on both 2.4 and 2.5 beta 3. The code's technically > > illegal, but it probably shouldn't crash either :) > > > def test(): > > for abc in range(10): > > try: pass > > finally: > > try: > > continue > > except: > > pass > > > > > > test() > > It also reliably crashes 2.3, though I don't see anything in there as > being illegal, but maybe I don't understand the langauge as well as I > think I do. > > Note that there is another segfaulting bug in CPython with regards to > threads that was recently closed, but which is still a problem: > http://python.org/sf/780714 > > Does IronPython survive in that case? > > > - Josiah > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/allison%40shasta.sta > nford.edu > -- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
