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Working around a lack of 'goto' in python

From: Christopher A. Craig <list...@ccraig.org>
08 Mar 2004 14:54:11 -0500
jarrodhroberson at yahoo.com (Y2KYZFR1) writes:

> There is absolutely NO LEGITIMATE REASON to use GOTO in any modern> language, ESPECIALLY Python, EVER!> > No stay away from computers until you understand how and why this> is.

If everyone took your advice, you would have no Python.  CPython (the
reference Python implementation) has over 200 gotos in its source.

-- 
Christopher A. Craig <list-python at ccraig.org>
"[Windows NT is] not about 'Where do you want to go today?'; it's more like
'Where am I allowed to go today?'" -- Mike Mitchell, NT Systems Administrator

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