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break in finally swallows exceptions #12921

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there is a break statement in a finally block, which would swallow any in-flight exception.

This means that if an unhandled exception (including a BaseException such as KeyboardInterrupt) is raised from the try body, it will not propagate on as expected.

If the intention is to suppress all exceptions, I would propose to make this clear by using except BaseException.

See also https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html#defining-clean-up-actions.

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Avoid break/continue/return in finally.

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