102 years ago, in November 1923, someone in Germany posted a package (Christmas present, maybe) using 50 stamps of 200 million Mk. Hyperinflation.

My PyCon UK talk on PEP 765: removing ‘return in finally’ from the language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrVX...

Tough choice..

The PEP has now been accepted. Which other languages have this problem?

LWN published a good summary of the discussion so far: lwn.net/Articles/100... @lwndotnet.bsky.social

I'm working on CPython's internals documentation, collecting it all into one place, organising, updating and enhancing to fill in missing topics. It's taking shape, but there are still gaps to fill. Contributions are welcome. github.com/python/cpyth...

If you use up all of your (unlimited) data, we will let you know. Good bot.

I conducted an analysis of return-in-finally in real world Python code. Just don't do it. TL;DR: - it is not used often - when it is used, it's usually used incorrectly - code authors find it easy to fix Draft PEP: peps.python.org/pep-0765/ Full report: github.com/iritkatriel/...