return in finally swallows exceptions

[iritkatriel]

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Problem Description

In

spyder/spyder/plugins/explorer/widgets/explorer.py

Line 1322 in 5f4c5cd

return dirname

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

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

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

What steps reproduce the problem?

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Avoid return in finally.

Versions

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[ccordoba12]

Hey @iritkatriel, thanks for noticing this issue in our code and reporting it. We'll address it in our 6.0.2 version, to be released this week.