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[Python-ideas] breaking out of module execution

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Apr 25 16:00:58 CEST 2012 
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
> Also, why use the proposed module-scope return instead of an if-statement with nested definitions, this works just fine:
> 
> : def foo(): pass
> :
> : if sys.platform == 'linux':
> :
> :    def linux_bar(): pass

Because this only works reasonably if you have a few lines of code
to indent. As soon as you have hundreds of lines, this becomes
both unreadable and difficult to edit.

The above is how the thread was started, BTW :-)

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